CVE-2008-5551

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
EPSS Score
32.3%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 3% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
P
Availability
None
Published: December 12, 2008 (6362 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

The XSS Filter in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta 2 allows remote attackers to bypass the XSS protection mechanism and conduct XSS attacks by injecting data at two different positions within an HTML document, related to STYLE elements and the CSS expression property, aka a "double injection."

CWE

CWE-79

Affected Products

microsoft internet explorer

References

🔗 securityreason.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com 🔗 securityreason.com