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TI-2008-03556 Aliases CVE-2008-3714GHSA-5pfp-c3pj-vr5r

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in awstats.pl in AWStats 6.8 allows remote…

Priority LOW 29CWE-79Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
— Not recorded in CVSS 2.0
Attack complexity
Medium
Impact type
Cross-site scripting
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · Partial · None
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 2.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in awstats.pl in AWStats 6.8 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the query_string, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-3681 and CVE-2006-1945.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.05597 92nd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
——all versions—No fix listedCNA
  • — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:awstats:awstats:6.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*6.8VulnerableAwstats
  • cpe:2.3:a:awstats:awstats:6.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 6.8 Vulnerable ·Awstats

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

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Not affected: 1 product
  • Red Hat

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2008-3714
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-5pfp-c3pj-vr5r

References

Advisory 5

Other 4

  • TI-2005-00101 AWStats 6.1, and other versions before 6.3, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary… CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2006-02178 The web interface for AWStats 6.4 and 6.5, when statistics updates are enabled, allows… CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 5.1
  • TI-2010-04100 awstats.cgi in AWStats before 7.0 accepts a configdir parameter in the URL, which allows… CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2020-17782 In AWStats through 7.7, cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config= accepts an absolute pathname, even… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2017-14709 Awstats version 7.6 and earlier is vulnerable to a path traversal flaw in the handling of… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2005-00394 Direct code injection vulnerability in awstats.pl in AWStats 6.3 and 6.4 allows remote… CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.5
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Sources

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