Internet Explorer 9 may display attribute content as part of a webpage in which some HTML elements contain many attributes

When you use Windows Internet Explorer 9 to browse to a webpage in which some HTML elements contain many attributes, Internet Explorer 9 may display the attribute content as part of the webpage.

Notes

• This behavior could lead to cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities if the content of the attributes comes from an untrusted source.
• This issue does not occur in Internet Explorer 8.

To resolve this problem, install the update that is described in this article.

Security update information

To resolve this issue, install the most recent cumulative security update for Internet Explorer. To do this, visit the following Microsoft website:For technical information about the most recent cumulative security update for Internet Explorer, visit the following Microsoft website:Note This update was first included in security update 2618444. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

For more information about software update terminology, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: