CVE-2008-3218 Drupal vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

What is CVE-2008-3218?

CVE-2008-3218 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Drupal Drupal, published on 18 Jul 2008. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-3218?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including drupal/drupal. It affects 2 products.

Products include Drupal Drupal, Fedoraproject Fedora.

How do I fix CVE-2008-3218?

Upgrade drupal/drupal to 6.3 or later.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2008-3218 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-3218 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Drupal Drupal

• CVE-2026-9082 Drupal Core SQL Injection Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-13671 Drupal core Un-restricted Upload of File Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2019-6340 Drupal Core Remote Code Execution Exploited High 8.1
• CVE-2009-3352 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2024-55636 Drupal core - Less critical - Gadget chain - SA-CORE-2024-006 Critical 9.8

All Drupal Drupal vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-6cj8-c359-p7q9.