CVE-2008-1795
published 2008-04-15CVE-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…
PriorityP419medium4.3CVSS 2.0
AVNACMAuNCNIPAN
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EPSS
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77.7th percentile
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.
Affected
1 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| blackboard | academic_suite | <= 7 | — |
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Exploit-DB
BlackBoard Academic Suite 6/7 - '/bin/common/announcement.pl?data__announcements___pk1_pk2__subject' Cross-Site Scripting
exploitdb·2008-03-26
CVE-2008-1795 BlackBoard Academic Suite 6/7 - '/bin/common/announcement.pl?data__announcements___pk1_pk2__subject' Cross-Site Scripting
BlackBoard Academic Suite 6/7 - '/bin/common/announcement.pl?data__announcements___pk1_pk2__subject' Cross-Site Scripting
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28455/info
Blackboard Academic Suite is prone to multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities because the application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.
An attacker may leverage these issues to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may help the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.
Blackboard versions prior to 6.3.1.683, 7.0.404.58, 7.1.467.35, 7.2.383.45, and 7.3.216.0 are vulnerable.
http://www.example.com/bin/common/announcement.pl?action=ADD&course_id=_137839_1&render_type=EDITABLE&conte
Exploit-DB
BlackBoard Academic Suite 6/7 - '/webapps/BlackBoard/execute/viewCatalog?searchText' Cross-Site Scripting
exploitdb·2008-03-26
CVE-2008-1795 BlackBoard Academic Suite 6/7 - '/webapps/BlackBoard/execute/viewCatalog?searchText' Cross-Site Scripting
BlackBoard Academic Suite 6/7 - '/webapps/BlackBoard/execute/viewCatalog?searchText' Cross-Site Scripting
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28455/info
Blackboard Academic Suite is prone to multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities because the application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.
An attacker may leverage these issues to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may help the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.
Blackboard versions prior to 6.3.1.683, 7.0.404.58, 7.1.467.35, 7.2.383.45, and 7.3.216.0 are vulnerable.
http://www.example.com/webapps/blackboard/execute/viewCatalog?type=Course&searchText=?>alert(?xss?)
No writeups or analysis indexed.
http://secskill.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/hacking-blackboard-academic-suite-2/http://secunia.com/advisories/29543http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3810http://www.scribd.com/doc/2363025/Hacking-Blackboard-Academic-Suitehttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490096/100/0/threadedhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28455http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019710https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41478http://secskill.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/hacking-blackboard-academic-suite-2/http://secunia.com/advisories/29543http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3810http://www.scribd.com/doc/2363025/Hacking-Blackboard-Academic-Suitehttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490096/100/0/threadedhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28455http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019710https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41478
2008-04-15
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