CVE-2008-1502: Egroupware

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 10.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 Egroupware: up to and including 1.4.002; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.6 only; version 1.2.106-2 only; …
• Moodle Moodle: up to and including 1.8.4; version 1.1.1 only; version 1.2.0 only; version 1.2.1 only; version 1.3.0 only; version 1.3.1 only; …

Published 2008-03-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.