CVE-2008-3219

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% 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

The Drupal filter_xss_admin function in 5.x before 5.8 and 6.x before 6.3 does not "prevent use of the object HTML tag in administrator input," which has unknown impact and attack vectors, probably related to an insufficient cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanism.

Affected products

Drupal: from 5.0 before 5.8; from 6.0 before 6.3 — fixed in 5.8, 6.3
Fedoraproject Fedora: 8, 9

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Drupal 5.8, 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/43701
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

Get alerted when CVE-2008-3219 or the next vulnerability affects your stack