Mahara Security Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-2239

Mahara 1.4.x before 1.4.4 and 1.5.x before 1.5.3 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files or create TCP connections via an XML external entity (XXE) injection attack, as demonstrated by reading...

CVE-2022-33913

In Mahara 21.04 before 21.04.6, 21.10 before 21.10.4, and 22.04.2, files can sometimes be downloaded through thumb.php with no permission...

CVE-2022-28892

Mahara before 20.10.5, 21.04.4, 21.10.2, and 22.04.0 is vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) because randomly generated tokens are too easily...

CVE-2022-44544

Mahara 21.04 before 21.04.7, 21.10 before 21.10.5, 22.04 before 22.04.3, and 22.10 before 22.10.0 potentially allow a PDF export to trigger a remote shell if the site is running on Ubuntu and the flag -dSAFER is not set with...

CVE-2022-42707

In Mahara 21.04 before 21.04.7, 21.10 before 21.10.5, 22.04 before 22.04.3, and 22.10 before 22.10.0, embedded images are accessible without a sufficient permission check under certain...

CVE-2009-2170

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mahara 1.0 before 1.0.12 and 1.1 before 1.1.5 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unknown...

CVE-2009-2171

Mahara 1.1 before 1.1.5 does not apply permission checks when saving a view that contains artefacts, which allows remote authenticated users to read another user's...

CVE-2009-3299

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the resume blocktype in Mahara before 1.0.13, and 1.1.x before 1.1.7, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified...

CVE-2009-3298

Mahara before 1.0.13, and 1.1.x before 1.1.7, allows remote authenticated institution administrators to reset a site administrator password via unspecified...

CVE-2010-0400

SQL injection vulnerability in lib/user.php in mahara 1.0.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via a...

CVE-2010-1670

Mahara before 1.0.15, 1.1.x before 1.1.9, and 1.2.x before 1.2.5 has improper configuration options for authentication plugins associated with logins that use the single sign-on (SSO) functionality, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via an empty password. NOTE: some of these...

CVE-2012-2351

The default configuration of the auth/saml plugin in Mahara before 1.4.2 sets the "Match username attribute to Remote username" option to false, which allows remote SAML IdP servers to spoof users of other SAML IdP servers by using the same internal...

CVE-2011-2773

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Mahara before 1.4.1 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that add a user to an...

CVE-2011-2771

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mahara before 1.4.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to (1) URI attributes and (2) the External Feed component, as demonstrated by the guid element in an RSS...

CVE-2011-2772

The get_dataroot_image_path function in lib/file.php in Mahara before 1.4.1 does not properly validate uploaded image files, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a (1) large or (2) invalid...

CVE-2011-2774

The "Reply to message" feature in Mahara 1.3.x and 1.4.x before 1.4.1 allows remote authenticated users to read the messages of a different user via a modified replyto...

CVE-2011-4118

Mahara before 1.4.1, when MNet (aka the Moodle network feature) is used, allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges via a jump to an XMLRPC...

CVE-2008-0381

Unspecified vulnerability in Mahara before 0.9.1 has unknown impact and remote attack vectors, probably related to cross-site scripting (XSS) in uploaded...

CVE-2022-29585

In Mahara before 20.10.5, 21.04.4, 21.10.2, and 22.04.0, a site using Isolated Institutions is vulnerable if more than ten groups are used. They are all shown from page 2 of the group results list (rather than only being shown for the institution that the viewer is a member...

CVE-2022-29584

Mahara before 20.10.5, 21.04.4, 21.10.2, and 22.04.0 allows stored XSS when a particular Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) class for embedly is used, and JavaScript code is constructed to perform an...

CVE-2022-24111

In Mahara 21.04 before 21.04.3 and 21.10 before 21.10.1, portfolios created in groups that have not been shared with non-group members and portfolios created on the site and institution levels can be viewed without requiring a login if the URL to these portfolios is...

CVE-2022-24694

In Mahara 20.10 before 20.10.4, 21.04 before 21.04.3, and 21.10 before 21.10.1, the names of folders in the Files area can be seen by a person not owning the folders. (Only folder names are affected. Neither file names nor file contents are...

CVE-2021-40848

In Mahara before 20.04.5, 20.10.3, 21.04.2, and 21.10.0, exported CSV files could contain characters that a spreadsheet program could interpret as a command, leading to execution of a malicious string locally on a device, aka CSV...

CVE-2021-40849

In Mahara before 20.04.5, 20.10.3, 21.04.2, and 21.10.0, the account associated with a web services token is vulnerable to being exploited and logged into, resulting in information disclosure (at a minimum) and often escalation of...

CVE-2021-43264

In Mahara before 20.04.5, 20.10.3, 21.04.2, and 21.10.0, adjusting the path component for the page help file allows attackers to bypass the intended access control for HTML files via directory traversal. It replaces the - character with the /...

CVE-2021-43266

In Mahara before 20.04.5, 20.10.3, 21.04.2, and 21.10.0, exporting collections via PDF export could lead to code execution via shell metacharacters in a collection name. Additional, in Mahara before 20.10.4, 21.04.3, and 21.10.1, exporting collections via PDF export could cause code...

CVE-2021-43265

In Mahara before 20.04.5, 20.10.3, 21.04.2, and 21.10.0, certain tag syntax could be used for XSS, such as via a SCRIPT...

CVE-2021-29349

Mahara 20.10 is affected by Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) that allows a remote attacker to remove inbox-mail on the server. The application fails to validate the CSRF token for a POST request. An attacker can craft a module/multirecipientnotification/inbox.php pieform_delete_all_notifications.....

CVE-2020-15907

In Mahara 19.04 before 19.04.6, 19.10 before 19.10.4, and 20.04 before 20.04.1, certain places could execute file or folder names containing...

CVE-2020-9387

In Mahara 19.04 before 19.04.5 and 19.10 before 19.10.3, account details are shared in the Elasticsearch results for accounts that are not accessible when the config setting 'Isolated institutions' is turned...

CVE-2020-9386

In Mahara 18.10 before 18.10.5, 19.04 before 19.04.4, and 19.10 before 19.10.2, file metadata information is disclosed to group members in the Elasticsearch result list despite them not having access to that artefact...

CVE-2020-9282

In Mahara 18.10 before 18.10.5, 19.04 before 19.04.4, and 19.10 before 19.10.2, certain personal information is discoverable inspecting network responses on the 'Edit access' screen when sharing...

CVE-2012-2237

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mahara 1.4.x before 1.4.3 and 1.5.x before 1.5.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to (1) javascript innerHTML as used when generating login forms, (2) links or (3) resources URLs, and (4) the...

CVE-2013-1426

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in Mahara before 1.5.9 and 1.6.x before 1.6.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the TinyMCE...

CVE-2019-9708

An issue was discovered in Mahara 17.10 before 17.10.8, 18.04 before 18.04.4, and 18.10 before 18.10.1. A site administrator can suspend the system user (root), causing all users to be locked out from the...

CVE-2019-9709

An issue was discovered in Mahara 17.10 before 17.10.8, 18.04 before 18.04.4, and 18.10 before 18.10.1. The collection title is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) due to not escaping it when viewing the collection's SmartEvidence overview page (if that feature is turned on). This can be...

CVE-2018-11195

Mahara 17.04 before 17.04.8 and 17.10 before 17.10.5 and 18.04 before 18.04.1 are vulnerable to the browser "back and refresh" attack. This allows malicious users with physical access to the web browser of a Mahara user, after they have logged in, to potentially gain access to their Mahara...

CVE-2018-11196

Mahara 17.04 before 17.04.8 and 17.10 before 17.10.5 and 18.04 before 18.04.1 can be used as medium to transmit viruses by placing infected files into a Leap2A archive and uploading that to Mahara. In contrast to other ZIP files that are uploaded, ClamAV (when activated) does not check Leap2A...

CVE-2018-11565

Mahara 17.04 before 17.04.8 and 17.10 before 17.10.5 and 18.04 before 18.04.1 are vulnerable to mentioning the usernames that are already taken by people registered in the system rather than masking that...

CVE-2018-6182

Mahara 16.10 before 16.10.9 and 17.04 before 17.04.7 and 17.10 before 17.10.4 are vulnerable to bad input when TinyMCE is bypassed by POST packages. Therefore, Mahara should not rely on TinyMCE's code stripping alone but also clean input on the server / PHP side as one can create own packets of...

CVE-2017-17455

Mahara 16.10 before 16.10.7, 17.04 before 17.04.5, and 17.10 before 17.10.2 are vulnerable to being forced, via a man-in-the-middle attack, to interact with Mahara on the HTTP protocol rather than HTTPS even when an SSL certificate is...

CVE-2017-17454

Mahara 16.10 before 16.10.7 and 17.04 before 17.04.5 and 17.10 before 17.10.2 have a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability when a user enters invalid UTF-8 characters. These are now going to be discarded in Mahara along with NULL characters and invalid Unicode characters. Mahara will also avoid....

CVE-2017-1000141

An issue was discovered in Mahara before 18.10.0. It mishandled user requests that could discontinue a user's ability to maintain their own account (changing username, changing primary email address, deleting account). The correct behavior was to either prompt them for their password and/or send a....

CVE-2017-1000154

Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.8 and 15.10 before 15.10.4 and 16.04 before 16.04.2 are vulnerable to some authentication methods, which do not use Mahara's built-in login form, still allowing users to log in even if their institution was expired or...

CVE-2017-1000155

Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.8 and 15.10 before 15.10.4 and 16.04 before 16.04.2 are vulnerable to profile pictures being accessed without any access control checks consequently allowing any of a user's uploaded profile pictures to be viewable by anyone, whether or not they were currently selected as....

CVE-2017-1000171

Mahara Mobile before 1.2.1 is vulnerable to passwords being sent to the Mahara access log in plain...

CVE-2017-1000153

Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.10 and 15.10 before 15.10.6 and 16.04 before 16.04.4 are vulnerable to incorrect access control after the password reset link is sent via email and then user changes default email, Mahara fails to invalidate old link.Consequently the link in email can be used to gain...

CVE-2017-1000156

Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.9 and 15.10 before 15.10.5 and 16.04 before 16.04.3 are vulnerable to a group's configuration page being editable by any group member even when they didn't have the admin...

CVE-2017-1000157

Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.13 and 16.04 before 16.04.7 and 16.10 before 16.10.4 and 17.04 before 17.04.2 are vulnerable to recording plain text passwords in the event_log table during the user creation process if full event logging was turned...

CVE-2017-1000133

Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.8 and 15.10 before 15.10.4 and 16.04 before 16.04.2 are vulnerable to a user - in some circumstances causing another user's artefacts to be included in a Leap2a export of their own...