BlackBoard Learning System Posts Handling Client-Side Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability


Description   A vulnerability has been identified in BlackBoard Learning System, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary scripting code. This flaw is due to an input validation error when processing and diplaying malformed posts, which could be exploited by attackers to cause arbitrary scripting code to be executed by the user's browser in the security context of an affected Web site.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
Blackboard Learning System (Release 6) version 6.2.3.23 and priorBlackboard Learning and Community Portal (Release 6) version 6.2.3.23 and prior
     
Solution   Apply patches : http://www.blackboard.com/support/
     
CVE   CVE-2006-4308
     
References  
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious tag with event found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious tag with event found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : javascript code in flash clickTAG parameter
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'object' tag found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'applet' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'applet' tag found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : 'location' javascript object found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' attribute found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : javascript code found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : code allowing cookie access found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'a' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : cookie access attempt using script language found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'embed' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'object' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'form' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'embed' tag found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' tag found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : javascript code found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'script' tag in flash clickTAG parameter
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'div' tag found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : evasion attempt using tag characters encoding in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'link' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'script' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : 'script' tag found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' attribute found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'location' javascript object found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL
3.2.0
     


 
 
 
 
 Risk level 
Low 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2006-08-23 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Local & Remote