[Full-disclosure] Firefox focus stealing vulnerability (possibly other browsers)

[Michal Zalewski]

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Michal Zalewski wrote:

> This was tested with 2.0.0.1. Opera is most likely not vulnerable;
> Microsoft Internet Explorer is not vulnerable as-is, but might be
> vulnerable to a variant of the attack.

And indeed - here's a MSIE 7.0 demo:

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/focusbug/ieversion.html

Somewhat less pretty and straightforward, but equally sad.

/mz