CVE-2013-3166

Status: ModifiedMedium (4.3)—💥 Exploit

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 10 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving incorrect auto-selection of the Shift JIS encoding, leading to cross-domain scrolling events, aka "Shift JIS Character Encoding Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-0015.

CVSS

Version: 2.0
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Base score: 4.3

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 16%
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 97
Score date: 10/8/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

💥 Public exploits

Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.

Published on Exploit-DB · Microsoft Internet Explorer - CAnchorElement Use-After-Free (MS13-055) (Metasploit) (9/10/2013)

Affected technologies (1)

Microsoft — Internet Explorer

CWEs

CWE-79

References

Raw JSON (NVD)

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