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CVE-2017-1000149 (GCVE-0-2017-1000149)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-11-03 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 21:53
VLAI
Summary
Mahara 1.10 before 1.10.9 and 15.04 before 15.04.6 and 15.10 before 15.10.2 are vulnerable to XSS due to window.opener (target="_blank" and window.open())
Severity
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2017-11-03 00:00
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