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CVE-2008-5026 (GCVE-0-2008-5026)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-11-10 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:40
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Summary
Microsoft SharePoint uses URLs with the same hostname and port number for a web site's primary files and individual users' uploaded files (aka attachments), which allows remote authenticated users to leverage same-origin relationships and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by uploading HTML documents.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2008-11-06 00:00
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