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CVE-2008-5553

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2008-12-12 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The XSS Filter in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta 2 disables itself upon encountering a certain X-XSS-Protection HTTP header, which allows remote attackers to bypass the XSS protection mechanism and conduct XSS attacks by injecting this header after a CRLF sequence. NOTE: the vendor has reportedly stated that the XSS Filter intentionally does not attempt to "address every conceivable XSS attack scenario."

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Weakness Type

CWE-79

References