XSS in Awstats
CVE-2008-5080
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.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.011 (64.0th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 64th percentile — 64.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Awstats — versions 5.0, 5.1, 5.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/33002 (third-party-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47116 (vdb-entry)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Vendor Advisory)
- bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-686-1 (vendor-advisory)