CVE-2008-5556
Published · Updated
8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 11%
exploitation probability
11%top 4% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
The XSS Filter in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta 2 does not recognize attack patterns designed to operate against web pages that are encoded with utf-7, which allows remote attackers to bypass the XSS protection mechanism and conduct XSS attacks by injecting crafted utf-7 content. NOTE: the vendor reportedly disputes this issue, stating "Behaviour is by design.
Affected products
n/a · n/a