XSS in Blackboard Academic Suite
CVE-2008-1795
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Blackboard Academic Suite 7.x and earlier, and possibly some 8.0 versions, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the searchText parameter in a Course action to webapps/blackboard/execute/viewCatalog or (2) the data__announcements___pk1_pk2__subject parameter in an ADD action to bin/common/announcement.pl.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.019 (79.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 79th percentile — 79.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.019 · newest: 0.019 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.scribd.com/doc/2363025/Hacking-Blackboard-Academic-Suite (Exploit)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/3810 (third-party-advisory)
- secskill.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/hacking-blackboard-academic-suite-2/ (Exploit)
- secunia.com/advisories/29543 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490096/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/28455 (vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41478 (vdb-entry)