CVE-2010-1489

The XSS Filter in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 does not properly perform neutering for the SCRIPT tag, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks against web sites that have no inherent XSS vulnerabilities, a different issue than CVE-2009-4074.

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.3 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2010-04-20

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected products

• Internet Explorer (Microsoft)

References

• http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/04/19/guidance-on-internet-explorer-xss-filter.aspx
• http://p42.us/ie8xss/
• http://p42.us/ie8xss/Abusing_IE8s_XSS_Filters.pdf
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12638