CVE-2008-5080: Awstats

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

awstats.pl in AWStats 6.8 and earlier does not properly remove quote characters, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the query_string parameter. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-3714.

Affected products

• Awstats Awstats: up to and including 6.8; version 5.0 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.2 only; version 5.3 only; version 5.4 only; …

Published 2008-12-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.