- Top reward
- No cash rewards
- Top severity paid
- Not published
- Assets in scope
- 10
- Public CVEs
- 26
- Last change
At a glance
What to know before you start testing.
- No cash rewards
- A disclosure program: you report for credit, not money.
- Report by email
- https://www.blackboard.com/trust-center/submit-a-vulnerability
- No safe harbor
- No promise about legal action.
- Publish after a fix
- Coordinate the timing with the company.
Rewards
What the company's own policy page says it pays.
This program does not pay cash rewards.
- Hall of fame
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Yes
Security Hall of Fame
Summarised with AI from the company's policy, read 12 Nov 2026, and checked word for word against it. Read the original
Scope
10 assets you may test.
Products and areas 10
- Blackboard Ally No bounty
- Blackboard Evaluate No bounty
- Blackboard Illuminate No bounty
- Blackboard LMS No bounty
- Blackboard Milestone No bounty
- Blackboard Outcomes No bounty
- Blackboard Planning No bounty
- Blackboard Program Review No bounty
- Blackboard SafeAssign No bounty
- Institution/Organization Name No bounty
Rules
What the policy asks of you, and the bug types it won't reward, quoted from Blackboard's policy. "We" in these lines means the program, not this site.
While testing
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customers should conduct all vulnerability testing against their non-production instances of our products to minimize the risk to data and services
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Do not use exploits unless (and to the extent) necessary to confirm the vulnerability.
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Exploits must not be used to exfiltrate data, establish persistent command line access, or gain lateral access to other systems.
Summarised with AI from the company's policy, read 12 Nov 2026, and checked word for word against it. Read the original
Changes
Tracked since 11 Nov 2026. Last checked 5 hours ago.
No changes yet. When the rewards or scope move, you will see it here and in the RSS feed.
Before we tracked it
Scope and reward changes recorded before this page started tracking it.
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Scope
− Blackboard Corporate Systems, − e.g., Websites, customer portals, etc
Public CVEs
Published vulnerabilities in this vendor's products, from the NVD.
| CVE | Summary | Severity | Published |
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| CVE-2022-39196 | Blackboard Learn 1.10.1 allows remote authenticated users to read unintended files by entering student credentials and then directly visiting a certain webapps/bbcms/execute/ URL. Note: The vendor disputes this stating this cannot be reproduced. | Medium 6.5 | 5 Sep 2022 |
| CVE-2021-36746 | Blackboard Learn through 9.1 allows XSS by an authenticated user via the Assignment Instructions HTML editor. | Medium 5.4 | 20 Jul 2021 |
| CVE-2021-36747 | Blackboard Learn through 9.1 allows XSS by an authenticated user via the Feedback to Learner form. | Medium 5.4 | 20 Jul 2021 |
| CVE-2020-25902 | Blackboard Collaborate Ultra 20.02 is affected by a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. The XSS payload will execute on the class room, which leads to stealing cookies from users who join the class. NOTE: Third-parties dispute the validity of this entry as a possible false positive during research | Medium 6.1 | 2 Mar 2021 |
| CVE-2020-9008 | Stored Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Blackboard Learn/PeopleTool v9.1 allows users to inject arbitrary web script via the Tile widget in the People Tool profile editor. | Medium 5.4 | 25 Feb 2020 |
| CVE-2018-13257 | The bb-auth-provider-cas authentication module within Blackboard Learn 2018-07-02 is susceptible to HTTP host header spoofing during Central Authentication Service (CAS) service ticket validation, enabling a phishing attack from the CAS server login page. | Medium 6.1 | 18 Nov 2019 |
| CVE-2017-18262 | Blackboard Learn (Since at least 17th of October 2017) has allowed Unvalidated Redirects on any signed-in user through its endpoints for handling Shibboleth logins, as demonstrated by a webapps/bb-auth-provider-shibboleth-BBLEARN/execute/shibbolethLogin?returnUrl= URI. | Medium 6.1 | 30 Apr 2018 |
| CVE-2014-0811 | Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Blackboard Vista/CE 8.0 SP6 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors. | Medium 4.3 | 22 Feb 2014 |
| CVE-2010-3244 | BbtsConnection_Edit.exe in Blackboard Transact Suite (formerly Blackboard Commerce Suite) before 3.6.0.2 relies on field names when determining whether it is appropriate to decrypt a connection.xml field value, which allows local users to discover the database password via a modified connection.xml file that contains an encrypted password in the <Server> field. | Medium 4.6 | 7 Sep 2010 |
| CVE-2010-3245 | The automated-backup functionality in Blackboard Transact Suite (formerly Blackboard Commerce Suite) stores the (1) database username and (2) database password in cleartext in (a) script and (b) batch (.bat) files, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading a file. | Low 2.1 | 7 Sep 2010 |
| CVE-2008-3421 | Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in Blackboard Academic Suite 8.0.260.7 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of student users for requests that change configuration and enrollments via unspecified input to (1) update_module.jsp, (2) enroll_course.pl, and (3) unenroll.jsp. | Medium 4.3 | 31 Jul 2008 |
| CVE-2008-1883 | The server in Blackboard Academic Suite 7.x stores MD5 password hashes that are provided directly by clients, which makes it easier for remote attackers to access accounts via a modified client that skips the javascript/md5.js hash calculation, and instead sends an arbitrary MD5 string. | Medium 6.8 | 18 Apr 2008 |
| CVE-2008-1795 | Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Blackboard Academic Suite 7.x and earlier, and possibly some 8.0 versions, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the searchText parameter in a Course action to webapps/blackboard/execute/viewCatalog or (2) the data__announcements___pk1_pk2__subject parameter in an ADD action to bin/common/announcement.pl. | Medium 4.3 | 15 Apr 2008 |
| CVE-2007-5227 | Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in messaging/course/composeMessage.jsp in BlackBoard Learning System 6.3.1.593 and earlier in BlackBoard Academic Suite allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) subject_t and (2) body_text parameters. NOTE: vector 2 requires bypassing a client-side security mechanism that attempts to block XSS sequences. | Medium 4.3 | 5 Oct 2007 |
| CVE-2006-4308 | Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Blackboard Learning System 6, Blackboard Learning and Community Portal Suite 6.2.3.23, and Blackboard Vista 4 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary Javascript, VBScript, or HTML via (1) data, (2) vbscript, and (3) malformed javascript URIs in various HTML tags when posting to the Discussion Board. | Medium 4.3 | 23 Aug 2006 |
| CVE-2006-3914 | Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Blackboard Academic Suite 6.2.3.23 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary HTML or web script by bypassing client-side validation through disabling JavaScript when submitting an essay response, which has no server-side validation before being viewed via "View Attempt Details" in the Gradebook. | Medium 6.0 | 28 Jul 2006 |
| CVE-2006-0511 | Blackboard Academic Suite 6.0 and earlier does not properly clear session information when de-authenticating a user who is idle, which allows subsequent users to log in as the previous user and gain privileges. NOTE: the vendor has disputed this issue, saying that "This is a customer specific issue related to their Kerberos authentication single sign-on application and not a vulnerability in the B | Medium 4.3 | 1 Feb 2006 |
| CVE-2005-4337 | The login page 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 bypass authentication and gain privileges as other users via a modified user_id parameter and a "/" in the encoded_pw parameter. | High 7.5 | 19 Dec 2005 |
| CVE-2005-4338 | 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". | High 10.0 | 19 Dec 2005 |
| CVE-2005-4339 | Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability 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 inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the context parameter to announcement.pl, which is reflected in the resulting page. | Medium 4.3 | 19 Dec 2005 |
| CVE-2005-4341 | 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 list all available categories via a blank category_id parameter to category.pl. NOTE: it is not clear whether this information is sensitive or not, so this might not be an exposure. | Medium 5.0 | 19 Dec 2005 |
| CVE-2005-4206 | 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 redirect users to other URLs and conduct phishing attacks via a modified url parameter to frameset.jsp, which loads the URL into a frame and causes it to appear to be part of a valid page. | Medium 6.1 | 13 Dec 2005 |
| CVE-2004-1581 | BlackBoard 1.5.1 allows remote attackers to gain sensitive information via a direct request to (1) checkdb.inc.php, (2) admin.inc.php or (3) cp.inc.php, which reveals the path in a PHP error message. | Medium 5.0 | 31 Dec 2004 |
| CVE-2002-1007 | Cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in Blackboard 5 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary web script via (1) the course_id parameter in a link to login.pl, (2) the CTID parameter in ProcessInfo.cgi, or (3) the Message parameter in index.cgi. | High 7.5 | 4 Oct 2002 |
| CVE-2000-0627 | BlackBoard CourseInfo 4.0 does not properly authenticate users, which allows local users to modify CourseInfo database information and gain privileges by directly calling the supporting CGI programs such as user_update_passwd.pl and user_update_admin.pl. | High 7.5 | 18 Jul 2000 |
| CVE-2000-0605 | Blackboard CourseInfo 4.0 stores the local and SQL administrator user names and passwords in cleartext in a registry key whose access control allows users to access the passwords. | Low 2.1 | 10 Jul 2000 |