CVE-2005-4338: Blackboard Academic Suite

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

announcement.pl in Blackboard Learning and Community Portal System in Academic Suite 6.3.1.424, 6.2.3.23, and other versions before 6 allows remote attackers to gain administrator privileges by setting the context parameter to "admin".

Affected products

• Blackboard Academic Suite: any version; version 6.2.3.23 only; version 6.3.1.424 only

Published 2005-12-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.