CVE-2008-3714

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-08-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in awstats.pl in AWStats 6.8 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the query_string, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-3681 and CVE-2006-1945.

Affected products

Awstats: 6.8

References

http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/awstats_changelog.txt
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495432
http://secunia.com/advisories/31519
http://secunia.com/advisories/31759
http://secunia.com/advisories/32939
http://secunia.com/advisories/33002
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2001151&group_id=13764&atid=113764
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1679
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:203
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30730
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020704
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-686-1

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