Mahara up to 15.04.13/16.04.7/16.10.4/17.04.2 Registration cross site scripting

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A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Mahara up to 15.04.13/16.04.7/16.10.4/17.04.2. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component Registration. This manipulation causes cross site scripting. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2017-9551. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Mahara up to 15.04.13/16.04.7/16.10.4/17.04.2 (Content Management System). It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the component Registration. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The bug was discovered 09/11/2017. The weakness was published 09/25/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared at bugs.launchpad.net. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2017-9551 since 06/11/2017. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 14 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading to version 15.04.14, 16.04.8, 16.10.5 or 17.04.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• Content Management System

Name

• Mahara

Version

• 15.04.0
• 15.04.1
• 15.04.2
• 15.04.3
• 15.04.4
• 15.04.5
• 15.04.6
• 15.04.7
• 15.04.8
• 15.04.9
• 15.04.10
• 15.04.11
• 15.04.12
• 15.04.13
• 16.04.0
• 16.04.1
• 16.04.2
• 16.04.3
• 16.04.4
• 16.04.5
• 16.04.6
• 16.04.7
• 16.10.0
• 16.10.1
• 16.10.2
• 16.10.3
• 16.10.4
• 17.04.0
• 17.04.1
• 17.04.2

License

• open-source

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