Mahara up to 25.04.2 File Path privileges management

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mahara and classified as problematic. This affects an unknown part of the component File Path. Such manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-42162. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mahara and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component File Path. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Mahara before 25.04.5 and 26.04.0 is vulnerable to artefacts being accessible to others under certain circumstances when the file path to an artefact in a page is manipulated.

This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-42162 since 04/24/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 25.04.5 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-60546). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Productinfo

Type

• Content Management System

Name

• Mahara

Version

• 0.9.0
• 0.9.1
• 0.9.2
• 1.0.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.2
• 1.0.3
• 1.0.4
• 1.0.5
• 1.0.6
• 1.0.7
• 1.0.8
• 1.0.9
• 1.0.10
• 1.0.11
• 1.0.12
• 1.0.13
• 1.0.14
• 1.0.15
• 1.1
• 1.1.0
• 1.1.1
• 1.1.2
• 1.1.3
• 1.1.4
• 1.1.5
• 1.1.6
• 1.1.7
• 1.1.8
• 1.1.9
• 1.2.0
• 1.2.1
• 1.2.2
• 1.2.3
• 1.2.4
• 1.2.5
• 1.2.6
• 1.3.0
• 1.3.1
• 1.3.2
• 1.3.3
• 1.3.4
• 1.3.5
• 1.3.6
• 1.3.7
• 1.4.0
• 1.4.1
• 1.4.2
• 1.4.3
• 1.4.4
• 1.5
• 1.5.0
• 1.5.1
• 1.5.2
• 1.5.3
• 1.5.4
• 1.5.5
• 1.5.6
• 1.5.7
• 1.5.8
• 1.5.9
• 1.5.10
• 1.5.11
• 1.5.12
• 1.6.0
• 1.6.1
• 1.6.2
• 1.6.3
• 1.6.4
• 1.6.5
• 1.6.6
• 1.6.7
• 1.7.0
• 1.7.1
• 1.7.2
• 1.7.3
• 1.8.6
• 1.8.7
• 1.9.3
• 1.9.4
• 1.9.5
• 1.9.6
• 1.9.7
• 1.9.8
• 1.10.0
• 1.10.1
• 1.10.2
• 1.10.3
• 1.10.4
• 1.10.5
• 1.10.6
• 1.10.9
• 15.03
• 15.04.0
• 15.04.1
• 15.04.2
• 15.04.3
• 15.04.5
• 15.04.6
• 15.04.7
• 15.04.8
• 15.04.9
• 15.04.10
• 15.04.13
• 15.04.14
• 15.10.1
• 15.10.2
• 15.10.3
• 15.10.4
• 15.10.5
• 15.10.6
• 16.03.2
• 16.03.3
• 16.04.1
• 16.04.2
• 16.04.3
• 16.04.4
• 16.04.6
• 16.04.7
• 16.04.8
• 16.04.9
• 16.10.0
• 16.10.3
• 16.10.4
• 16.10.5
• 16.10.6
• 16.10.7
• 17.04.1
• 17.04.2
• 17.04.3
• 17.04.4
• 17.04.5
• 17.04.6
• 17.04.7
• 17.04.8
• 17.10.1
• 17.10.2
• 17.10.3
• 17.10.4
• 17.10.5
• 17.10.8
• 18.04.0
• 18.04.1
• 18.04.3
• 18.04.4
• 18.10.0
• 18.10.1
• 18.10.5
• 19.04.3
• 19.04.4
• 19.04.5
• 19.04.6
• 19.10.1
• 19.10.2
• 19.10.3
• 19.10.4
• 20.04.0
• 20.04.1
• 20.04.5
• 20.10.2
• 20.10.3
• 20.10.4
• 20.10.5
• 21.04.1
• 21.04.2
• 21.04.3
• 21.04.4
• 21.04.6
• 21.04.7
• 21.9
• 21.10.0
• 21.10.1
• 21.10.2
• 21.10.4
• 21.10.5
• 21.10.6
• 22.04.0
• 22.04.2
• 22.04.3
• 22.04.4
• 22.9
• 22.10.0
• 22.10.1
• 22.10.4
• 22.10.6
• 23.04.3
• 23.04.4
• 23.04.5
• 23.04.6
• 23.04.7
• 23.04.8
• 24.04.0
• 24.04.1
• 24.04.2
• 24.04.4
• 24.04.9
• 24.04.10
• 24.04.11
• 25.04.0
• 25.04.1
• 25.04.2

License

• open-source

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