CVE-2008-5080

MediumCVSS 4.3/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 4.3/10AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-79

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Dec 3, 2008
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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