Vulnerability CVE-2008-5080
Published: 2008-12-03   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

Type:

CWE-79

 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Awstats -> Awstats 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474396
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/47116
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-686-1
http://secunia.com/advisories/33002
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495432#21
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