Mahara up to 1.9.5/1.10.3/15.04.0 Institution Display Name cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mahara up to 1.9.5/1.10.3/15.04.0. It has been declared as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the component Institution Display Name Handler. Executing a manipulation can lead to cross site scripting. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2017-1000144. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Mahara up to 1.9.5/1.10.3/15.04.0 (Content Management System). This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the component Institution Display Name Handler. 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. CVE summarizes:

Mahara 1.9 before 1.9.6 and 1.10 before 1.10.4 and 15.04 before 15.04.1 are vulnerable to a site admin or institution admin being able to place HTML and Javascript into an institution display name, which will be displayed to other users unescaped on some Mahara system pages.

The bug was discovered 10/23/2015. The weakness was presented 11/03/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at bugs.launchpad.net. This vulnerability was named CVE-2017-1000144 since 11/02/2017. The attack can be initiated remotely. Required for exploitation is a single authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 742 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading to version 1.9.6, 1.10.4 or 15.04.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

See VDB-109112, VDB-109111, VDB-109110 and VDB-109109 for similar entries. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Content Management System

Name

• Mahara

Version

• 1.9.0
• 1.9.1
• 1.9.2
• 1.9.3
• 1.9.4
• 1.9.5
• 1.10.0
• 1.10.1
• 1.10.2
• 1.10.3
• 15.04

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• open-source

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