PT-2017-10844 · Catalyst It · Mahara

Hugh Davenport + 1 · Published 2017-11-03 · Updated 2017-11-15 · CVE-2017-1000144

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mahara versions 1.9 through 1.9.5 Mahara versions 1.10 through 1.10.3 Mahara versions 15.04 through 15.04.0

Description The issue allows a site admin or institution admin to inject HTML and Javascript into an institution display name. This malicious content will be displayed to other users unescaped on certain system pages, potentially leading to security issues.

Recommendations For Mahara versions 1.9 through 1.9.5, update to version 1.9.6 or later. For Mahara versions 1.10 through 1.10.3, update to version 1.10.4 or later. For Mahara versions 15.04 through 15.04.0, update to version 15.04.1 or later.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-1000144

Affected Products

Mahara

References · 4

• 🔥 https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1447377 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-1000144 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000144 · Security Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-1000144 · Note