CVE-2015-0072
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 through 11 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 71.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 through 11 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving an IFRAME element that triggers a redirect, a second IFRAME element that does not trigger a redirect, and an eval of a WindowProxy object, aka "Universal XSS (UXSS)."
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module for it.
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Metasploit modules1 module
- MS15-018 Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 and 11 Cross-Domain JavaScript Injection (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/gather/ie_uxss_injectionRank normaldisclosed 1 Feb 2015
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
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By microsoft
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 71.7% · top 0.6% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
12
- 62658 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- MS15-018 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 1031888 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://community.websense.com/blogs/securitylabs/archive/2015/02/05/another-day-another-zero-day-internet-explorer-s-turn-cve-2015-0072.aspx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/02/04/internet-explorer-has-a-cross-site-scripting-zero-day-bug/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.pcworld.com/article/2879372/dangerous-ie-vulnerability-opens-door-to-powerful-phishing-attacks.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://innerht.ml/blog/ie-uxss.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20150209 Cookie hijacking: Internet Explorer UXSS (CVE-2015-0072) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130308/Microsoft-Internet-Explorer-Universal-XSS-Proof-Of-Concept.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20150131 Major Internet Explorer Vulnerability - NOT Patched (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- ms-ie-cve20150072-xss(100606) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 72489 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-0110 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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