PT-2012-3902 · Catalyst It · Mahara

Ajay Singh Negi + 1 · Published 2012-11-24 · Updated 2013-02-08 · CVE-2012-2243

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mahara versions 1.4.x through 1.4.4 Mahara versions 1.5.x through 1.5.3

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by uploading an XML file with the xhtml extension, which is rendered inline as script.

Recommendations For Mahara versions 1.4.x through 1.4.4, update to version 1.4.5 or later. For Mahara versions 1.5.x through 1.5.3, update to version 1.5.4 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-2243

DSA-2591-1

Affected Products

Mahara

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2243 · Security Note
• https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=4937 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2591 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2243 · Note
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1055232 · Note