CVE-2008-5080

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-12-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

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.

Affected products

Awstats: through 6.8; 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 (+12)

References

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

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