FKIE_CVE-2008-5080

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2008-12-03 18:30 - Updated: 2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
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
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
awstats awstats *
awstats awstats 5.0
awstats awstats 5.1
awstats awstats 5.2
awstats awstats 5.3
awstats awstats 5.4
awstats awstats 5.5
awstats awstats 5.6
awstats awstats 5.7
awstats awstats 5.8
awstats awstats 5.9
awstats awstats 6.0
awstats awstats 6.1
awstats awstats 6.2
awstats awstats 6.3
awstats awstats 6.4
awstats awstats 6.5
awstats awstats 6.6
awstats awstats 6.7
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