diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index f503a598d80..85902ea2e50 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ CKEditor 4 Changelog
 
 Fixed Issues:
 
+* [#10868](http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/10868): Prevent from Internet Explorer 8 crashing when applying a cite style.
 * [#10915](http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/10915): CSS filter in Kama skin pull request.
 * [#10914](http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/10914): Plugins indentlist and indentblock included into building config.
 * [#10812](http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/10812): Fixed range#createBookmark2 incorrectly normalizing offsets. This bug was causing many issues: [#10850](http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/10850), [#10847](http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/10847), [#10842](http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/10842).
diff --git a/contents.css b/contents.css
index b90aaa63e84..f5ac8c6ed47 100644
--- a/contents.css
+++ b/contents.css
@@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ img.left
 	padding: 5px;
 }
 
-img:hover
+/* #10868: We use :not() selector to exclude IE8, which crashes on img:hover style. */
+:not(.ie8) img:hover
 {
 	opacity: .9;
 	filter: alpha(opacity = 90);