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Awstats 6.8 and prior [Medium]

By Security Team • Dec 3rd, 2008 • Category: Security Notifications

Affects:

  • Awstats 6.8 and prior [Medium]

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.

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CVE Identifier: CVE-2008-5080
Severity: Medium

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Related OLEX Packages: awstats
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