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)
EPSS: 0.011 (61.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Awstats — versions 5.0, 5.1, 5.2
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_MISC)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory)