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CVE-2012-2243

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
24/11/2012
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mahara 1.4.x before 1.4.5 and 1.5.x before 1.5.4 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. NOTE: this can be leveraged with CVE-2012-2244 to execute arbitrary code without authentication, as demonstrated by modifying the clamav path.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
4.30
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.4:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.4:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.4:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.4:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.5:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.5:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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