CVE-2008-3218

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-07-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Drupal 6.x before 6.3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to (1) free tagging taxonomy terms, which are not properly handled on node preview pages, and (2) unspecified OpenID values.

Affected products

Drupal: from 6.0 before 6.3 — fixed in 6.3
Fedoraproject Fedora: 8, 9

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Drupal 6.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://drupal.org/node/280571
http://secunia.com/advisories/31079
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/10/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30168
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454849
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43704
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-August/msg00016.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00527.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00551.html
http://drupal.org/node/280571
http://secunia.com/advisories/31079
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/10/3

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