VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-9551

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Published 2017-09-25 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
6.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.1

Description

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 user and administrator and if accepted become part of the new user's account.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
71%
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
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
maharamahara16.10
maharamahara16.10.0
maharamahara16.10.1
maharamahara16.10.2
maharamahara16.10.3
maharamahara16.10.4
maharamahara17.04
maharamahara17.04.0
maharamahara17.04.1
maharamahara17.04.2

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.