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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Access Vector
- network
- Access Cmplx
- medium
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- partial
- Availability
- none
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- AWSTATS
- Published
- 12/3/2008
- Last Modified
- 4/9/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
awstats : awstatsawstats : awstatsawstats : awstatsawstats : awstatsawstats : awstatsawstats : awstatsawstats : awstatsawstats : awstatsawstats : awstatsawstats : awstatsawstats : awstatsawstats : awstatsawstats : awstatsawstats : awstatsawstats : awstatsawstats : awstatsawstats : awstatsawstats : awstatsawstats : awstats
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