CVE-2008-5080

Description

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

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47116

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474396

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-686-1

http://secunia.com/advisories/33002

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495432#21

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3