CVE-2008-4020 — Cross-site Scripting in Microsoft Office

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting2 documents2 sources
Severity
4.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
31.3%
top 3.22%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Microsoft Office
Timeline
PublishedOct 15
Latest updateMay 2

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Microsoft Office XP SP3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a document that contains a "Content-Disposition: attachment" header and is accessed through a cdo: URL, which renders the content instead of raising a File Download dialog box, aka "Vulnerability in Content-Disposition Header Vulnerability."

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:N/I:P/A:NExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages1 packages

Patches

Patch: secunia.com ↗Patch: www.securityfocus.com ↗Patch: secunia.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-hmhj-jwx3-6q6x: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Microsoft Office XP SP3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a document that↗2022-05-02
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