CVE-2008-5080 (GCVE-0-2008-5080)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-12-03 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:40
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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.
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