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…

published December 12, 2008

CVSS

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EPSS

14%

Percentile

96.5

In the wild

Unconfirmed

What it is

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."

The record

Technical detail

CVSS: Not scored
CVSS v4.0: Not supplied
EPSS: 0.13994 · 96.5th percentile
Published: 2008-12-12T18:13Z

EPSS history

Timeline

12 DEC 18:13Z
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…
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