The XSS Filter in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta 2 disables itself upon encountering a certain X-XSS-Protection HTTP header, which allows remote attackers to bypass the XSS protection mechanism and conduct XSS attacks by injecting this header after a CRLF sequence. NOTE: the vendor has reportedly stated that the XSS Filter intentionally does not attempt to "address every conceivable XSS attack scenario."
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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Updated: 2024-08-07T10:56:46.912Z

Reserved: 2008-12-12T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2008-5553

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2008-12-12T18:30:03.313

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2008-5553

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