CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-1489
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-04-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
The XSS Filter in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 does not properly perform neutering for the SCRIPT tag, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks against web sites that have no inherent XSS vulnerabilities, a different issue than CVE-2009-4074.
Affected configurations
• microsoft internet explorer 8
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/04/19/guidance-on-internet-explorer-xss-filter.aspx Broken Link
- http://p42.us/ie8xss/ Exploit
- http://p42.us/ie8xss/Abusing_IE8s_XSS_Filters.pdf Exploit
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12638 Tool Signature
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/04/19/guidance-on-internet-explorer-xss-filter.aspx Broken Link
- http://p42.us/ie8xss/ Exploit
- http://p42.us/ie8xss/Abusing_IE8s_XSS_Filters.pdf Exploit
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12638 Tool Signature