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CVE-2009-4074

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2009-11-25 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The XSS Filter in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 allows remote attackers to leverage the "response-changing mechanism" to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks against web sites that have no inherent XSS vulnerabilities, related to the details of output encoding and improper modification of an HTML attribute, aka "XSS Filter Script Handling Vulnerability."

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References