CVE-2008-3260

Exp

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Claroline before 1.8.10 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the cwd parameter in a rqMkHtml action to document/rqmkhtml.php, or the query string to (2) announcements/announcements.php, (3) calendar/agenda.php, (4) course/index.php, (5) course_description/index.php, (6) document/document.php, (7) exercise/exercise.php, (8) group/group_space.php, (9) phpbb/newtopic.php, (10) phpbb/reply.php, (11) phpbb/viewtopic.php, (12) wiki/wiki.php, or (13) work/work.php in claroline/.

Published: 2008-07-22 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-3260 is rated High Exploit Risk (64.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.38%). Core evidence: 13 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.73% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2008-3260

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
32070 exploit_db edb 2008-07-15 Exploit-DB ↗
32069 exploit_db edb 2008-07-15 Exploit-DB ↗
32068 exploit_db edb 2008-07-15 Exploit-DB ↗
32067 exploit_db edb 2008-07-15 Exploit-DB ↗
32065 exploit_db edb 2008-07-15 Exploit-DB ↗
32064 exploit_db edb 2008-07-15 Exploit-DB ↗
32063 exploit_db edb 2008-07-15 Exploit-DB ↗
32062 exploit_db edb 2008-07-15 Exploit-DB ↗
32061 exploit_db edb 2008-07-15 Exploit-DB ↗
32060 exploit_db edb 2008-07-15 Exploit-DB ↗
32059 exploit_db edb 2008-07-15 Exploit-DB ↗
32066 exploit_db edb 2008-07-15 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-3260

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 2026-06-06 1.65% 3.38% +1.73%
2 2026-04-08 2.63% 1.65% -0.99%
3 2026-03-25 2.63%

Full EPSS history (20 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-3260

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-2008-3260

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-3260

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
claroline claroline <= 1.8.9 cpe:2.3:a:claroline:claroline:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
claroline claroline 1.2 cpe:2.3:a:claroline:claroline:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
claroline claroline 1.3 cpe:2.3:a:claroline:claroline:1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
claroline claroline 1.4 cpe:2.3:a:claroline:claroline:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
claroline claroline 1.5 cpe:2.3:a:claroline:claroline:1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
claroline claroline 1.5.3 cpe:2.3:a:claroline:claroline:1.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
claroline claroline 1.5.4 cpe:2.3:a:claroline:claroline:1.5.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
claroline claroline 1.6 cpe:2.3:a:claroline:claroline:1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
claroline claroline 1.6_beta cpe:2.3:a:claroline:claroline:1.6_beta:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
claroline claroline 1.6_rc1 cpe:2.3:a:claroline:claroline:1.6_rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
claroline claroline 1.7 cpe:2.3:a:claroline:claroline:1.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
claroline claroline 1.7.1 cpe:2.3:a:claroline:claroline:1.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
claroline claroline 1.7.2 cpe:2.3:a:claroline:claroline:1.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
claroline claroline 1.7.3 cpe:2.3:a:claroline:claroline:1.7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
claroline claroline 1.7.4 cpe:2.3:a:claroline:claroline:1.7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
claroline claroline 1.7.5 cpe:2.3:a:claroline:claroline:1.7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
claroline claroline 1.7.6 cpe:2.3:a:claroline:claroline:1.7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
claroline claroline 1.7.7 cpe:2.3:a:claroline:claroline:1.7.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
claroline claroline 1.8.0 cpe:2.3:a:claroline:claroline:1.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
claroline claroline 1.8.1 cpe:2.3:a:claroline:claroline:1.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
claroline claroline 1.8.2 cpe:2.3:a:claroline:claroline:1.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
claroline claroline 1.8.3 cpe:2.3:a:claroline:claroline:1.8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
claroline claroline 1.8.4 cpe:2.3:a:claroline:claroline:1.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
claroline claroline 1.8.5 cpe:2.3:a:claroline:claroline:1.8.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
claroline claroline 1.8.6 cpe:2.3:a:claroline:claroline:1.8.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
claroline claroline 1.8.7 cpe:2.3:a:claroline:claroline:1.8.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
claroline claroline 1.8.8 cpe:2.3:a:claroline:claroline:1.8.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-3260

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