CVE-2008-5080

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2008-5080 · Published 03/12/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-5080 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting awstats (awstats).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.1%, higher than 65.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
awstats awstats	`= 5.0= 5.1= 5.2= 5.3= 5.4= 5.5= 5.6= 5.7= 5.8= 5.9= 6.0= 6.1= 6.2= 6.3= 6.4= 6.5= 6.6= 6.7≤ 6.8`	No fix yet

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.

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

awstats

= 5.0= 5.1= 5.2= 5.3= 5.4= 5.5= 5.6= 5.7= 5.8= 5.9= 6.0= 6.1= 6.2= 6.3= 6.4= 6.5= 6.6= 6.7≤ 6.8

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