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CVE-2008-5553

The XSS Filter in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta 2 disables itself upon encountering a certain X-XSS-Protection HTTP header, which allows remote attackers to bypass the XSS protection mechanism and conduct XSS attacks by injecting this header after a CRLF sequence. NOTE: the vendor has reportedly stated that the XSS Filter intentionally does not attempt to "address every conceivable XSS attack scenario."

  • Published: Dec 12, 2008
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2008-5553
  • Severity: Low
  • Exploit:

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 4.3
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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Software From Fixed in
microsoft / internet_explorer 8-beta2 8-beta2.x