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CVE-2012-2253 (GCVE-0-2012-2253)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-11-24 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 19:26
VLAI
Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in group/members.php in Mahara 1.5.x before 1.5.7 and 1.6.x before 1.6.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the query parameter.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2591 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1079498 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=5076 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/51404 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Date Public
2012-11-22 00:00
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