CVE-2008-3260
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Claroline before 1.8.10 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 4.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 12Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
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/.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 12 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits12
Exploit-DB12 entries
- Claroline 1.8.9 - 'announcements/announcements.php' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 32059webapps, phppublished 15 Jul 2008Verified
- Claroline 1.8.9 - 'calendar/agenda.php' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 32060webapps, phppublished 15 Jul 2008Verified
- Claroline 1.8.9 - 'course/index.php' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 32061webapps, phppublished 15 Jul 2008Verified
- Claroline 1.8.9 - 'course_description/index.php' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 32062webapps, phppublished 15 Jul 2008Verified
- Claroline 1.8.9 - 'document/document.php' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 32063webapps, phppublished 15 Jul 2008Verified
- Claroline 1.8.9 - 'exercise/exercise.php' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 32064webapps, phppublished 15 Jul 2008Verified
- Claroline 1.8.9 - 'group/group_space.php' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 32065webapps, phppublished 15 Jul 2008Verified
- Claroline 1.8.9 - '/phpBB/newtopic.php' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 32066webapps, phppublished 15 Jul 2008Verified
- Claroline 1.8.9 - 'phpBB/reply.php' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 32067webapps, phppublished 15 Jul 2008Verified
- Claroline 1.8.9 - 'phpBB/viewtopic.php' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 32068webapps, phppublished 15 Jul 2008Verified
- Claroline 1.8.9 - 'wiki/wiki.php' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 32069webapps, phppublished 15 Jul 2008Verified
- Claroline 1.8.9 - 'work/work.php' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 32070webapps, phppublished 15 Jul 2008Verified
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Timeline
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Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.6% · top 8.2% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- 20080718 [DSECRG-08-030] Claroline 1.8.9 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 4020 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 30269 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- claroline-unknown-unspecified(43854) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://claroline.svn.sourceforge.net/viewrc/claroline/branches/1.8/claroline/?sortby=date#dirlist (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=613634 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://wiki.claroline.net/index.php/Changelog_1.8.x#Modification_between_claroline_1.8.9_and_1.8.10 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 31116 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-3248 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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