Websense Security Labs has issued a security alert report as of January 4, which states that Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 7 or lower) has a security hole. Websense Security Labs says that an attacker can embed a malicious JavaScript in PDF files and execute actions such as inserting forwarding addresses for phishing. Thus, if a PDF file is hosted at a remote server, site visitors can fall a victim, depending on the versions of Adobe Acrobat Reader and the Internet browsers that they use in reading it. And, according to Websense Security Labs, Adobe fixed this vulnerability as Adobe Reader 8 was released.

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