Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2007-33
XUL pages can hide the window titlebar
- Announced
- October 18, 2007
- Reporter
- Eli Friedman
- Impact
- Low
- Products
- Firefox, SeaMonkey
- Fixed in
-
- Firefox 2.0.0.8
- SeaMonkey 1.1.5
Description
Mozilla developer Eli Friedman discovered that web pages written in the XUL markup language (rather than the usual HTML) can hide their window's titlebar. It may have been possible to abuse this ablity to create more convincing spoof and phishing pages.