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CVE-2008-5080

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
03/12/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
4.30
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:awstats:awstats:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 6.8 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:awstats:awstats:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:awstats:awstats:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:awstats:awstats:5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:awstats:awstats:5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:awstats:awstats:5.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:awstats:awstats:5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:awstats:awstats:5.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:awstats:awstats:5.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:awstats:awstats:5.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:awstats:awstats:5.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:awstats:awstats:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:awstats:awstats:6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:awstats:awstats:6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:awstats:awstats:6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools