CVE-2008-5555

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta 2 - XSS

Title source: llm

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta 2 relies on the XDomainRequestAllowed HTTP header to authorize data exchange between domains, which allows remote attackers to bypass the product's XSS Filter protection mechanism, and conduct XSS and cross-domain attacks, by injecting this header after a CRLF sequence, related to "XDomainRequest Allowed Injection (XAI)." NOTE: the vendor has reportedly stated that the XSS Filter intentionally does not attempt to "address every conceivable XSS attack scenario."

Scores

EPSS 0.1547
EPSS Percentile 94.5%

Classification

CWE
CWE-79
Status published

Affected Products (2)

microsoft/internet_explorer
n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Dec 12, 2008
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026