CVE-2008-0273: Drupal

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Interpretation conflict in Drupal 4.7.x before 4.7.11 and 5.x before 5.6, when Internet Explorer 6 is used, allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via invalid UTF-8 byte sequences, which are not processed as UTF-8 by Drupal's HTML filtering, but are processed as UTF-8 by Internet Explorer, effectively removing characters from the document and defeating the HTML protection mechanism.

Affected products

• Drupal Drupal: version 4.0.0 only; version 4.1.0 only; version 4.2.0_rc only; version 4.4 only; version 4.4.1 only; version 4.4.2 only; …

Published 2008-01-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.