CVE-2010-1489 - The XSS Filter in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 does not properly perform neutering for the SCRIPT tag, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks against web sites that have no inherent XSS vulnerabilities, a different issue than CVE-2009-4074

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The XSS Filter in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 does not properly perform neutering for the SCRIPT tag, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks against web sites that have no inherent XSS vulnerabilities, a different issue than CVE-2009-4074

Published Apr 20, 2010

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 14.62%

Description

The XSS Filter in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 does not properly perform neutering for the SCRIPT tag, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks against web sites that have no inherent XSS vulnerabilities, a different issue than CVE-2009-4074.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (4)

http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/04/19/guidance-on-internet-explorer-xss-filter.aspx
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http://p42.us/ie8xss/
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http://p42.us/ie8xss/Abusing_IE8s_XSS_Filters.pdf
x_refsource_MISCExploit
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12638
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Link	Providers	Tags
http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/04/19/guidance-on-internet-explorer-xss-filter.aspx		x_refsource_CONFIRMBroken Link
http://p42.us/ie8xss/		x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://p42.us/ie8xss/Abusing_IE8s_XSS_Filters.pdf		x_refsource_MISCExploit
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12638		vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALTool Signature