CVE-2008-5080 (GCVE-0-2008-5080)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-12-03 18:00
Modified
2024-08-07 10:40
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
awstats.pl in AWStats 6.8 and earlier does not properly remove quote characters, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the query_string parameter. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-3714.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495432#21
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/33002
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-686-1
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474396Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47116
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495432#21
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/33002
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-686-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474396Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47116
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