Mahara 19.04 < 19.04.6, 19.10 < 19.10.4, 20.04.0 XSS Vulnerability
🗓️ 10 Aug 2020 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2020 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2020-15907 | 7 Aug 202019:39 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2020-15907 | 7 Aug 202019:39 | – | cvelist | |
| EUVD-2020-7879 | 7 Oct 202500:30 | – | euvd | |
| CVE-2020-15907 | 7 Aug 202020:15 | – | nvd | |
| Design/Logic Flaw | 7 Aug 202020:15 | – | prion | |
| CVE-2020-15907 | 22 May 202515:49 | – | redhatcve |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:mahara:mahara";
if( description )
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.144379");
script_version("2025-08-26T05:39:52+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-08-26 05:39:52 +0000 (Tue, 26 Aug 2025)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2020-08-10 08:10:44 +0000 (Mon, 10 Aug 2020)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.3");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2020-08-12 14:28:00 +0000 (Wed, 12 Aug 2020)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2020-15907");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Mahara 19.04 < 19.04.6, 19.10 < 19.10.4, 20.04.0 XSS Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2020 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Web application abuses");
script_dependencies("gb_mahara_http_detect.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("mahara/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Mahara is prone to a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability
where certain places could execute file or folder names containing JavaScript.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Mahara versions 19.04, 19.10 and 20.04.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 19.04.6, 19.10.4, 20.04.1 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=8668");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1888163");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if (!port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE))
exit(0);
if (!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
exit(0);
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "19.04.0", test_version2: "19.04.5")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "19.04.6", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "19.10.0", test_version2: "19.10.3")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "19.10.4", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
if (version_is_equal(version: version, test_version: "20.04.0")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "20.04.1", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
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26 Aug 2025 00:00Current
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