CVE-2008-1795

Exp

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.

Published: 2008-04-15 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2008-1795 is rated High Exploit Risk (69.8/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 10.91%, 93th percentile). 4 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +5.53% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2008-1795

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
31537 exploit_db edb 2008-03-26 Exploit-DB ↗
31538 exploit_db edb 2008-03-26 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-1795

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-01-08 5.38% 10.91% +5.53%
2 2025-06-05 5.12% 5.38% +0.26%
3 2025-04-28 — 5.12% —

Full EPSS history (16 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-1795

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2008-1795

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-1795

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
blackboard academic_suite <= 7 cpe:2.3:a:blackboard:academic_suite:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-1795

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