CVE-2008-5551 (GCVE-0-2008-5551)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-12-12 18:13 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:56
VLAI?
Summary
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."
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32780 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4724 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499124/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Date Public ?
2008-12-11 00:00
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