The XSS Filter in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 allows remote attackers to leverage the "response-changing mechanism" to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks against web sites that have no inherent XSS vulnerabilities, related to the details of output encoding and improper modification of an HTML attribute, aka "XSS Filter Script Handling Vulnerability."
http://www.owasp.org/images/5/50/OWASP-Italy_Day_IV_Maone.pdf
http://hackademix.net/2009/11/21/ies-xss-filter-creates-xss-vulnerabilities/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/20/internet_explorer_security_flaw/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37135
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7715
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-002
Source: MITRE
Published: 2009-11-25
Updated: 2021-07-23
Type: NVD-CWE-Other
Base Score: 4.3
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Impact Score: 2.9
Exploitability Score: 8.6
Severity: MEDIUM