Blackboard Academic Suite <= 6.3.1 Build 593 HTML Injection

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 4231

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to an HTML injection attack.

Description

The remote host is running Blackboard, a web-based academic software package that allows organizations to teach students remotely. This version of Blackboard is vulnerable to multiple HTML injection flaws. An attacker exploiting these flaws would need the ability to log in as a valid user. Successful exploitation would result in the attacker gaining confidential data from other Blackboard users.

Solution

Upgrade or patch according to vendor recommendations.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 4231

Family: CGI

Published: 10/5/2007

Updated: 3/6/2019

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:blackboard:blackboard_learning_and_community_post_systems

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5227

BID: 25929

Detections

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