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CVE-2017-14752

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
31/10/2017
Last modified:
20/04/2025

Description

Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.15, 16.04 before 16.04.9, 16.10 before 16.10.6, and 17.04 before 17.04.4 are vulnerable to a user submitting a potential dangerous payload, e.g., XSS code, to be saved as their first name, last name, or display name in the profile fields that can cause issues such as escalation of privileges or unknown execution of malicious code when replying to messages in Mahara.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.40 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): Low
Integrity (I): Low
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x
5.40
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 3.50 LOW
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

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

Base Score 2.0
3.50
Severity 2.0
LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:15.04:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:15.04:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:15.04.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:15.04.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:15.04.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:15.04.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:15.04.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:15.04.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:15.04.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:15.04.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:15.04.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:15.04.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:15.04.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:15.04.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:15.04.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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


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