CVE-2012-2253
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
Description
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51404
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2591
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1079498
- https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=5076
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51404
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2591
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1079498
- https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=5076
CWEs
CWE-79
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.