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CVE-2008-3500 is an authenticated cross-site scripting issue in the Drupal Suggested Terms module. A logged-in user who can craft taxonomy terms could inject script or HTML that may run in another user's browser. The public bundle names a fixed line, but does not provide CVSS scoring or evidence of active exploitation. Exposure is most likely on legacy Drupal 5 sites that installed Suggested Terms 5.x before 5.x-1.2 and allow authenticated users to create or modify taxonomy terms. Treat this as a legacy web application hygiene issue with moderate urgency. It is not marked actively exploited in the provided sources, but exposed old Drupal modules can create account takeover and admin-session risk through stored XSS. Mitigation focus: Upgrade Suggested Terms to 5.x-1.2 or a later vendor-supported version.; Disable or remove the Suggested Terms module if it is no longer needed.; Restrict taxonomy term creation and editing to trusted roles only..
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- Known Exploited
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- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- suggestedterms-taxonomy-xss(43363)CVE reference · vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
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