Mahara up to 1.7.2 lib/web.php cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mahara. It has been rated as problematic. This impacts an unknown function in the library lib/web.php. This manipulation causes cross site scripting. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2013-4430. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability has been found in Mahara (Content Management System) and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function in the library lib/web.php. 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:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mahara before 1.5.12, 1.6.x before 1.6.7, and 1.7.x before 1.7.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Host header to lib/web.php.

The weakness was disclosed 05/19/2014 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at mahara.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2013-4430 since 06/12/2013. 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. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

By approaching the search of inurl:lib/web.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

Upgrading to version 1.5 eliminates this vulnerability.

The entries VDB-69729, VDB-69728 and VDB-69726 are pretty similar. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

Productinfo

Type

• Content Management System

Name

• Mahara

Version

• 1.5.0
• 1.5.1
• 1.5.2
• 1.5.3
• 1.5.4
• 1.5.6
• 1.5.7
• 1.5.8
• 1.5.9
• 1.5.10
• 1.5.11
• 1.6.0
• 1.6.1
• 1.6.2
• 1.6.3
• 1.6.4
• 1.6.5
• 1.6.6
• 1.7.0
• 1.7.1
• 1.7.2

License

• open-source

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