fkie_cve-2012-2243
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2012-11-24 20:55
Modified
2025-04-11 00:51
Severity ?
Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mahara 1.4.x before 1.4.5 and 1.5.x before 1.5.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by uploading an XML file with the xhtml extension, which is rendered inline as script. NOTE: this can be leveraged with CVE-2012-2244 to execute arbitrary code without authentication, as demonstrated by modifying the clamav path.
References
security@debian.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2591
security@debian.orghttps://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1055232
security@debian.orghttps://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=4937Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2591
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1055232
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=4937Patch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mahara mahara 1.4
mahara mahara 1.4
mahara mahara 1.4
mahara mahara 1.4
mahara mahara 1.4.0
mahara mahara 1.4.1
mahara mahara 1.4.2
mahara mahara 1.4.3
mahara mahara 1.4.4
mahara mahara 1.5
mahara mahara 1.5
mahara mahara 1.5.0
mahara mahara 1.5.1
mahara mahara 1.5.2
mahara mahara 1.5.3


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