Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2008-5551. PoCs published by Rafel Ivgi.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit demonstrates a bypass of the XSS filter in Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 by injecting a malicious CSS expression via a style tag. The PoC triggers an alert dialog, proving the vulnerability.
Description
The XSS Filter in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta 2 allows remote attackers to bypass the XSS protection mechanism and conduct XSS attacks by injecting data at two different positions within an HTML document, related to STYLE elements and the CSS expression property, aka a "double injection."
Exploits (1)
This exploit demonstrates a bypass of the XSS filter in Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 by injecting a malicious CSS expression via a style tag. The PoC triggers an alert dialog, proving the vulnerability.