CVE-2016-2817

The WebExtension sandbox feature in browser/components/extensions/ext-tabs.js in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 does not properly restrict principal inheritance during chrome.tabs.create and chrome.tabs.update API calls, which allows remote attackers to conduct Universal XSS (UXSS) attacks via a crafted extension that accesses a (1) javascript: or (2) data: URL.

Date published : 2016-04-30

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-46.html

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1227462