What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-6138

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 12.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-12-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 through 11 mishandles HTML attributes in HTTP responses, which allows remote attackers to bypass a cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanism via unspecified vectors, aka "Internet Explorer XSS Filter Bypass Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 8, 9, 10, 11

References

• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034315
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2015/ms15-124
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034315
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2015/ms15-124

Get alerted when CVE-2015-6138 or the next vulnerability affects your stack