VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-14752

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Published 2017-10-31 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
5.4
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.4

Description

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 issues such as escalation of privileges or unknown execution of malicious code when replying to messages in Mahara.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
64%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
maharamahara15.04
maharamahara15.04.0
maharamahara15.04.1
maharamahara15.04.2
maharamahara15.04.3
maharamahara15.04.4
maharamahara15.04.5
maharamahara15.04.6
maharamahara15.04.7
maharamahara15.04.8
maharamahara15.04.9
maharamahara15.04.10
maharamahara15.04.11
maharamahara15.04.12
maharamahara15.04.13
maharamahara15.04.14
maharamahara16.04
maharamahara16.04.0
maharamahara16.04.1
maharamahara16.04.2
maharamahara16.04.3
maharamahara16.04.4
maharamahara16.04.5
maharamahara16.04.6
maharamahara16.04.7
maharamahara16.04.8
maharamahara16.10
maharamahara16.10.0
maharamahara16.10.1
maharamahara16.10.2
maharamahara16.10.3
maharamahara16.10.4
maharamahara16.10.5
maharamahara17.04
maharamahara17.04.0
maharamahara17.04.1
maharamahara17.04.2
maharamahara17.04.3

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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