A weakness has been identified in Opera, which could be exploited by malicious websites to conduct spoofing or phishing attacks. This issue is caused by an error when handling "data:" URIs, which could be exploited by attackers to spoof the displayed address bar by tricking a user into clicking on a specially crafted link.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Robert Swiecki.
ChangeLog
2007-07-16 : Initial release
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