CVE-2009-4074
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."
- EPSS
- 15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 96% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- microsoft:internet_explorer
References
- http://hackademix.net/2009/11/21/ies-xss-filter-creates-xss-vulnerabilities/
- http://www.owasp.org/images/5/50/OWASP-Italy_Day_IV_Maone.pdf
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37135
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/20/internet_explorer_security_flaw/
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-002