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CVEs (110)
| CVE | Vendor / Product | Sev | Risk | CVSS | EPSS | KEV | Published | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2025-61872 | Med | 0.40 | 6.1 | 0.00 | Apr 24, 2026 | 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… | ||
| CVE-2018-6182 | Med | 0.40 | 6.1 | 0.01 | Apr 9, 2018 | Mahara 16.10 before 16.10.9 and 17.04 before 17.04.7 and 17.10 before 17.10.4 are vulnerable to bad input when TinyMCE is bypassed by POST packages. Therefore, Mahara should not rely on TinyMCE's code stripping alone but also clean input on the server / PHP side as one can… | ||
| CVE-2017-9551 | Med | 0.40 | 6.1 | 0.01 | Sep 25, 2017 | Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.14 and 16.04 before 16.04.8 and 16.10 before 16.10.5 and 17.04 before 17.04.3 are vulnerable to a user submitting potential dangerous payload, e.g. XSS code, to be saved as their name in the usr_registration table. The values are then emailed to the the… | ||
| CVE-2017-17455 | Med | 0.38 | 5.9 | 0.01 | Feb 20, 2018 | Mahara 16.10 before 16.10.7, 17.04 before 17.04.5, and 17.10 before 17.10.2 are vulnerable to being forced, via a man-in-the-middle attack, to interact with Mahara on the HTTP protocol rather than HTTPS even when an SSL certificate is present. | ||
| CVE-2018-11565 | Med | 0.35 | 5.3 | 0.01 | May 30, 2018 | Mahara 17.04 before 17.04.8 and 17.10 before 17.10.5 and 18.04 before 18.04.1 are vulnerable to mentioning the usernames that are already taken by people registered in the system rather than masking that information. | ||
| CVE-2017-17454 | Med | 0.35 | 5.4 | 0.01 | Feb 20, 2018 | 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.… | ||
| CVE-2017-1000149 | Med | 0.35 | 5.4 | 0.01 | Nov 3, 2017 | 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()) | ||
| CVE-2017-1000146 | Med | 0.35 | 5.4 | 0.01 | Nov 3, 2017 | Mahara 1.9 before 1.9.7 and 1.10 before 1.10.5 and 15.04 before 15.04.2 are vulnerable to the arbitrary execution of Javascript in the browser of a logged-in user because the title of the portfolio page was not being properly escaped in the AJAX script that updates the… | ||
| CVE-2017-1000140 | Med | 0.35 | 5.4 | 0.01 | Nov 3, 2017 | Mahara 1.8 before 1.8.7 and 1.9 before 1.9.5 and 1.10 before 1.10.3 and 15.04 before 15.04.0 are vulnerable to a maliciously created .xml file that can have its code executed when user tries to download the file. | ||
| CVE-2017-1000138 | Med | 0.35 | 5.4 | 0.01 | Nov 3, 2017 | Mahara 1.10 before 1.10.0 and 15.04 before 15.04.0 are vulnerable to possible cross site scripting when dragging/dropping files into a collection if the file has Javascript code in its title. | ||
| CVE-2017-1000137 | Med | 0.35 | 5.4 | 0.01 | Nov 3, 2017 | Mahara 1.10 before 1.10.0 and 15.04 before 15.04.0 are vulnerable to possible cross site scripting when adding a text block to a page via the keyboard (rather than drag and drop). | ||
| CVE-2017-15273 | Med | 0.35 | 5.4 | 0.01 | Oct 31, 2017 | Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.15, 16.04 before 16.04.9, 16.10 before 16.10.6, and 17.04 before 17.04.4 are vulnerable to a user submitting a potential dangerous payload, e.g., XSS code, to be saved as titles in internal artefacts. | ||
| CVE-2017-14752 | Med | 0.35 | 5.4 | 0.01 | Oct 31, 2017 | Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.15, 16.04 before 16.04.9, 16.10 before 16.10.6, and 17.04 before 17.04.4 are vulnerable to a user submitting a potential dangerous payload, e.g., XSS code, to be saved as their first name, last name, or display name in the profile fields that can cause… | ||
| CVE-2017-1000145 | Med | 0.32 | 4.9 | 0.01 | Nov 3, 2017 | Mahara 1.9 before 1.9.7 and 1.10 before 1.10.5 and 15.04 before 15.04.2 are vulnerable to anonymous comments being able to be placed on artefact detail pages even when the site administrator had disallowed anonymous comments. | ||
| CVE-2025-59308 | Med | 0.31 | 4.7 | 0.00 | Apr 24, 2026 | In Mahara before 24.04.10 and 25 before 25.04.1, an institution administrator or institution support administrator on a multi-tenanted site can masquerade as an institution member in an institution for which they are not an administrator, if they also have the 'Site staff' role. | ||
| CVE-2017-1000144 | Med | 0.31 | 4.8 | 0.01 | Nov 3, 2017 | Mahara 1.9 before 1.9.6 and 1.10 before 1.10.4 and 15.04 before 15.04.1 are vulnerable to a site admin or institution admin being able to place HTML and Javascript into an institution display name, which will be displayed to other users unescaped on some Mahara system pages. | ||
| CVE-2017-1000132 | Med | 0.31 | 4.8 | 0.01 | Nov 3, 2017 | Mahara 1.8 before 1.8.7 and 1.9 before 1.9.5 and 1.10 before 1.10.3 and 15.04 before 15.04.0 are vulnerable to a maliciously created .swf files that can have its code executed when a user tries to download the file. | ||
| CVE-2017-1000157 | Med | 0.29 | 4.4 | 0.01 | Nov 3, 2017 | Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.13 and 16.04 before 16.04.7 and 16.10 before 16.10.4 and 17.04 before 17.04.2 are vulnerable to recording plain text passwords in the event_log table during the user creation process if full event logging was turned on. | ||
| CVE-2017-1000155 | Med | 0.28 | 4.3 | 0.01 | Nov 3, 2017 | Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.8 and 15.10 before 15.10.4 and 16.04 before 16.04.2 are vulnerable to profile pictures being accessed without any access control checks consequently allowing any of a user's uploaded profile pictures to be viewable by anyone, whether or not they were… | ||
| CVE-2017-1000143 | Med | 0.28 | 4.3 | 0.01 | Nov 3, 2017 | Mahara 1.8 before 1.8.7 and 1.9 before 1.9.5 and 1.10 before 1.10.3 and 15.04 before 15.04.0 are vulnerable to users receiving watchlist notifications about pages they do not have access to anymore. |
- risk 0.40cvss 6.1epss 0.00
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…
- risk 0.40cvss 6.1epss 0.01
Mahara 16.10 before 16.10.9 and 17.04 before 17.04.7 and 17.10 before 17.10.4 are vulnerable to bad input when TinyMCE is bypassed by POST packages. Therefore, Mahara should not rely on TinyMCE's code stripping alone but also clean input on the server / PHP side as one can…
- risk 0.40cvss 6.1epss 0.01
Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.14 and 16.04 before 16.04.8 and 16.10 before 16.10.5 and 17.04 before 17.04.3 are vulnerable to a user submitting potential dangerous payload, e.g. XSS code, to be saved as their name in the usr_registration table. The values are then emailed to the the…
- risk 0.38cvss 5.9epss 0.01
Mahara 16.10 before 16.10.7, 17.04 before 17.04.5, and 17.10 before 17.10.2 are vulnerable to being forced, via a man-in-the-middle attack, to interact with Mahara on the HTTP protocol rather than HTTPS even when an SSL certificate is present.
- risk 0.35cvss 5.3epss 0.01
Mahara 17.04 before 17.04.8 and 17.10 before 17.10.5 and 18.04 before 18.04.1 are vulnerable to mentioning the usernames that are already taken by people registered in the system rather than masking that information.
- risk 0.35cvss 5.4epss 0.01
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.…
- risk 0.35cvss 5.4epss 0.01
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())
- risk 0.35cvss 5.4epss 0.01
Mahara 1.9 before 1.9.7 and 1.10 before 1.10.5 and 15.04 before 15.04.2 are vulnerable to the arbitrary execution of Javascript in the browser of a logged-in user because the title of the portfolio page was not being properly escaped in the AJAX script that updates the…
- risk 0.35cvss 5.4epss 0.01
Mahara 1.8 before 1.8.7 and 1.9 before 1.9.5 and 1.10 before 1.10.3 and 15.04 before 15.04.0 are vulnerable to a maliciously created .xml file that can have its code executed when user tries to download the file.
- risk 0.35cvss 5.4epss 0.01
Mahara 1.10 before 1.10.0 and 15.04 before 15.04.0 are vulnerable to possible cross site scripting when dragging/dropping files into a collection if the file has Javascript code in its title.
- risk 0.35cvss 5.4epss 0.01
Mahara 1.10 before 1.10.0 and 15.04 before 15.04.0 are vulnerable to possible cross site scripting when adding a text block to a page via the keyboard (rather than drag and drop).
- risk 0.35cvss 5.4epss 0.01
Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.15, 16.04 before 16.04.9, 16.10 before 16.10.6, and 17.04 before 17.04.4 are vulnerable to a user submitting a potential dangerous payload, e.g., XSS code, to be saved as titles in internal artefacts.
- risk 0.35cvss 5.4epss 0.01
Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.15, 16.04 before 16.04.9, 16.10 before 16.10.6, and 17.04 before 17.04.4 are vulnerable to a user submitting a potential dangerous payload, e.g., XSS code, to be saved as their first name, last name, or display name in the profile fields that can cause…
- risk 0.32cvss 4.9epss 0.01
Mahara 1.9 before 1.9.7 and 1.10 before 1.10.5 and 15.04 before 15.04.2 are vulnerable to anonymous comments being able to be placed on artefact detail pages even when the site administrator had disallowed anonymous comments.
- risk 0.31cvss 4.7epss 0.00
In Mahara before 24.04.10 and 25 before 25.04.1, an institution administrator or institution support administrator on a multi-tenanted site can masquerade as an institution member in an institution for which they are not an administrator, if they also have the 'Site staff' role.
- risk 0.31cvss 4.8epss 0.01
Mahara 1.9 before 1.9.6 and 1.10 before 1.10.4 and 15.04 before 15.04.1 are vulnerable to a site admin or institution admin being able to place HTML and Javascript into an institution display name, which will be displayed to other users unescaped on some Mahara system pages.
- risk 0.31cvss 4.8epss 0.01
Mahara 1.8 before 1.8.7 and 1.9 before 1.9.5 and 1.10 before 1.10.3 and 15.04 before 15.04.0 are vulnerable to a maliciously created .swf files that can have its code executed when a user tries to download the file.
- risk 0.29cvss 4.4epss 0.01
Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.13 and 16.04 before 16.04.7 and 16.10 before 16.10.4 and 17.04 before 17.04.2 are vulnerable to recording plain text passwords in the event_log table during the user creation process if full event logging was turned on.
- risk 0.28cvss 4.3epss 0.01
Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.8 and 15.10 before 15.10.4 and 16.04 before 16.04.2 are vulnerable to profile pictures being accessed without any access control checks consequently allowing any of a user's uploaded profile pictures to be viewable by anyone, whether or not they were…
- risk 0.28cvss 4.3epss 0.01
Mahara 1.8 before 1.8.7 and 1.9 before 1.9.5 and 1.10 before 1.10.3 and 15.04 before 15.04.0 are vulnerable to users receiving watchlist notifications about pages they do not have access to anymore.
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