Security Advisory SA21577 - BlackBoard Learning System Script Insertion Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA21577

BlackBoard Learning System Script Insertion Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA21577

Release Date

2006-08-23

Last Update

2006-08-25

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Cross Site Scripting

Where

From remote

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Solution Status

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Software:

Blackboard Learning and Community Portal Systems 6.x

Blackboard Learning System 6

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2006-4308 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

PrOtOn and digi7al64 have reported a vulnerability in BlackBoard Learning and Community Portal Systems, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks.

Postings to the discussion board are not properly sanitised before being saved. This can be exploited to execute certain HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of a vulnerable site when the malicious data is viewed.

The vulnerability has been reported in Blackboard Learning System (Release 6) and Blackboard Learning and Community Portal (Release 6) 6.2.3.23.

Solution
Patches are reportedly available.

Provided and/or discovered by
PrOtOn and digi7al64

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