VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-1000144

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Published 2017-11-03 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
4.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.8

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
58%
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.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
maharamahara1.9
maharamahara1.9.0
maharamahara1.9.1
maharamahara1.9.2
maharamahara1.9.3
maharamahara1.9.4
maharamahara1.9.5
maharamahara1.10
maharamahara1.10.0
maharamahara1.10.1
maharamahara1.10.2
maharamahara1.10.3
maharamahara15.04
maharamahara15.04.0

References

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.