CVE-2008-5080

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    CVE-2008-5080

    Published: 3 Dec 2008Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

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

    Affected packages

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    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High