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CVE-2010-1489

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 14.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2010-04-20 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-79

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

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 8

References

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

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