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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.3

CVE-2009-4074 json

The XSS Filter in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 allows remote attackers to leverage the "response-changing mechanism" to conduct cross-site…

published 2009-11-25 16 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2009-4045

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
14.8%
EPSS 14.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The XSS Filter in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 allows remote attackers to leverage the "response-changing mechanism" to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks against web sites that have no inherent XSS vulnerabilities, related to the details of output encoding and improper modification of an HTML attribute, aka "XSS Filter Script Handling Vulnerability."

Exploit prediction

14.84% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.