PT-2021-23788 · Mahara · Mahara

Dominic Couture · Published 2021-11-02 · Updated 2021-11-09 · CVE-2021-43265

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.4

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mahara versions prior to 20.04.5 Mahara versions prior to 20.10.3 Mahara versions prior to 21.04.2 Mahara versions prior to 21.10.0

Description The issue allows certain tag syntax to be used for XSS, such as via a SCRIPT element. This can be exploited to execute malicious scripts.

Recommendations For versions prior to 20.04.5, update to version 20.04.5 or later. For versions prior to 20.10.3, update to version 20.10.3 or later. For versions prior to 21.04.2, update to version 21.04.2 or later. For versions prior to 21.10.0, update to version 21.10.0 or later.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2021-43265

Affected Products

Mahara

References · 5

• 🔥 https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1944633 · Exploit
• https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=8953 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-43265 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-43265 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/22902 · Telegram Post