CVE-2008-4020 is a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting Microsoft Office XP SP3. It allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by crafting a document with a specific "Content-Disposition: attachment" header, which Office then renders via a cdo: URL instead of prompting a download. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and potential for partial integrity impact, but no confidentiality or availability impact. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the CVE has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, placing it in the top 1% for community attention.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
xpCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:xp:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.