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CVE-2008-5551

medium · 4.3

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."

4.3
CVSS
14.0%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
96th
EPSS percentile
2008-12-12
Published

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
microsoftinternet_explorer8

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References

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