CVEs-PoC/2008/CVE-2008-5080.md

### [CVE-2008-5080](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5080)
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### Description

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.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495432#21

#### Github
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