CVE-2013-3166

Exp

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.

Published: 2013-07-10 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2013-3166 is rated High Exploit Risk (68.7/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 18.00%, 95th percentile). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +3.23% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2013-3166

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
28187 exploit_db edb 2013-09-10 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2013-3166

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-01-11 14.77% 18.00% +3.23%
2 2025-10-18 31.95% 14.77% -17.19%
3 2025-06-23 31.95%

Full EPSS history (22 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2013-3166

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2013-3166

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2013-3166

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
microsoft internet_explorer 6 cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft internet_explorer 7 cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft internet_explorer 8 cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft internet_explorer 9 cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft internet_explorer 10 cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2013-3166

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