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CVE-2025-61872

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
24/04/2026
Last modified:
24/04/2026

Description

Mahara before 25.04.2 and 24.04.11 are vulnerable to displaying results that can trigger XSS via a malicious search query string. This occurs in the 'search site' feature when using the Elasticsearch7 search plugin. The Elasticsearch function does not properly sanitize input in the query parameter.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.10 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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

Base Score 3.x
6.10
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM

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