CVE-2008-5551

The XSS Filter in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta 2 allows remote attackers to bypass the XSS protection mechanism and conduct XSS attacks by injecting data at two different positions within an HTML document, related to STYLE elements and the CSS expression property, aka a "double injection."

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.3 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2008-12-12

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected products

• Internet Explorer (Microsoft)

References

• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4724
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499124/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32780
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47277