CVE-2008-1502

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-03-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The _bad_protocol_once function in phpgwapi/inc/class.kses.inc.php in KSES, as used in eGroupWare before 1.4.003, Moodle before 1.8.5, and other products, allows remote attackers to bypass HTML filtering and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a string containing crafted URL protocols.

Affected products

egroupware: through 1.4.002; 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.3, 1.0.6, 1.2.106-2, 1.4.001
Moodle: through 1.8.4; 1.1.1, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.3.2 (+29)

References

http://docs.moodle.org/en/Release_Notes#Moodle_1.8.5
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/29491
http://secunia.com/advisories/30073
http://secunia.com/advisories/30986
http://secunia.com/advisories/31017
http://secunia.com/advisories/31018
http://secunia.com/advisories/31167
http://secunia.com/advisories/32400
http://secunia.com/advisories/32446
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1691
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871

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