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GHSA-6Q4P-5JG7-P386

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-14 03:37 – Updated: 2022-05-14 03:37

Details

Mahara 16.10 before 16.10.7 and 17.04 before 17.04.5 and 17.10 before 17.10.2 have a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability when a user enters invalid UTF-8 characters. These are now going to be discarded in Mahara along with NULL characters and invalid Unicode characters. Mahara will also avoid direct $GET and $_POST usage where possible, and instead use param_exists() and the correct param*() function to fetch the expected value.

Severity

5.4 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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CVE-2017-17454 (GCVE-0-2017-17454)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-02-20 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 20:51

Summary

Mahara 16.10 before 16.10.7 and 17.04 before 17.04.5 and 17.10 before 17.10.2 have a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability when a user enters invalid UTF-8 characters. These are now going to be discarded in Mahara along with NULL characters and invalid Unicode characters. Mahara will also avoid direct $_GET and $_POST usage where possible, and instead use param_exists() and the correct param_*() function to fetch the expected value.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=8149	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://reviews.mahara.org/#/c/8191/	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1732987	x_refsource_MISC

Date Public

2018-01-16 00:00

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GHSA-6Q4P-5JG7-P386

CVE-2017-17454 (GCVE-0-2017-17454)

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