CVE-2009-4074

Medium

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."

SeverityMedium

CVSS4.3

Exploit probability—

Product

Microsoft Internet Explorer

PublishedNov 25, 2009

First seenNov 25, 2009

How to fix

Vendor advisories

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-002

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
microsoft internet_explorer	8	—

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