Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.15, 16.04 before 16.04.9, 16.10 before 16.10.6, and 17.04 before 17.04.4 are vulnerable to a user submitting a potential dangerous payload, e.g., XSS code, to be saved as their first name, last name, or display name in the profile fields that can cause issues such as escalation of privileges or unknown execution of malicious code when replying to messages in Mahara.
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Affected Vendors & Products
Advisories
Source | ID | Title |
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EUVD-2017-6247 | Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.15, 16.04 before 16.04.9, 16.10 before 16.10.6, and 17.04 before 17.04.4 are vulnerable to a user submitting a potential dangerous payload, e.g., XSS code, to be saved as their first name, last name, or display name in the profile fields that can cause issues such as escalation of privileges or unknown execution of malicious code when replying to messages in Mahara. |
Fixes
Solution
No solution given by the vendor.
Workaround
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References
Link | Providers |
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1719491 |
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History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-05T19:34:39.986Z
Reserved: 2017-09-26T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-14752

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2017-10-31T18:29:00.313
Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860
Link: CVE-2017-14752

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