CVE-2008-0273
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- EPSS score
- 2.3% (83th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-0284)
- Published
- January 15, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-0284 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- drupal / drupal
- drupal / drupal
- drupal / drupal
- drupal / drupal
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- drupal / drupal
- drupal / drupal
References
- http://drupal.org/node/208564
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28422(Patch)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28486
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27238(Patch)
- http://www.vbdrupal.org/forum/showthread.php?p=6878
- http://www.vbdrupal.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1349
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0127
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0134
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39619
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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