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CVE-2012-6037

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

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mahara 1.4.x before 1.4.5 and 1.5.x before 1.5.4, and other versions including 1.2, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a CSV header with "unknown fields," which are not properly handled in error messages in the (1) bulk user, (2) group, and (3) group member upload capabilities. NOTE: this issue was originally part of CVE-2012-2243, but that ID was SPLIT due to different issues by different researchers.

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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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