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CVE-2008-5551

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CVE-2008-5551

Published: Dec 12, 2008

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

PUBLISHED

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."

VendorProductVersions

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References

32780
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
4724
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SREASON
ie-antixss-xss(47277)
vdb-entry
x_refsource_XF

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