---------------------------------------------------------------------- Alerts when vulnerabilities pose a threat to your infrastructure The enhanced reporting module of the Secunia Vulnerability Intelligence Manager (VIM) enables you to combine advisory and ticket information, and generate policy compliance statistics. Using your asset list preferences, customised notifications are issued as soon as a new vulnerability is discovered - a valuable tool for documenting mitigation strategies. Watch our quick solution overview: http://www.youtube.com/user/Secunia#p/a/u/0/M1Y9sJqR2SY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Blackboard "keywordraw" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA44716 VERIFY ADVISORY: Secunia.com http://secunia.com/advisories/44716/ Customer Area (Credentials Required) https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=44716 RELEASE DATE: 2011-05-27 DISCUSS ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/44716/#comments AVAILABLE ON SITE AND IN CUSTOMER AREA: * Last Update * Popularity * Comments * Criticality Level * Impact * Where * Solution Status * Operating System / Software * CVE Reference(s) http://secunia.com/advisories/44716/ ONLY AVAILABLE IN CUSTOMER AREA: * Authentication Level * Report Reliability * Secunia PoC * Secunia Analysis * Systems Affected * Approve Distribution * Remediation Status * Secunia CVSS Score * CVSS https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=44716 ONLY AVAILABLE WITH SECUNIA CSI AND SECUNIA PSI: * AUTOMATED SCANNING http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/ http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/corporate/wsus_sccm_3rd_third_party_patching/ DESCRIPTION: A vulnerability has been reported in Blackboard Learn, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. Input passed via the "keywordraw" parameter to bin/common/search.pl is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site. The vulnerability is reported in version 8.0. SOLUTION: Update to Service Pack 7 Hotfix 2. PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: Matt Jezorek ORIGINAL ADVISORY: https://www.upsploit.com/index.php/advisories/view/UPS-2011-0009 OTHER REFERENCES: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/ DEEP LINKS: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/ EXTENDED DESCRIPTION: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/ EXTENDED SOLUTION: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/ EXPLOIT: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- About: This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help private users keeping their systems up to date against the latest vulnerabilities. Subscribe: http://secunia.com/advisories/secunia_security_advisories/ Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.) http://secunia.com/advisories/about_secunia_advisories/ Please Note: Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by clicking the link. Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories. Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only use those supplied by the vendor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: Secunia Security Advisories http://secunia.com/sec_adv_unsubscribe/?email=packet%40packetstormsecurity.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------