CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-2243

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2012-11-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-11-24
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mahara 1.4.x before 1.4.5 and 1.5.x before 1.5.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by uploading an XML file with the xhtml extension, which is rendered inline as script. NOTE: this can be leveraged with CVE-2012-2244 to execute arbitrary code without authentication, as demonstrated by modifying the clamav path.

Affected configurations

• mahara mahara 1.4 • mahara mahara 1.4.0 • mahara mahara 1.4.1 • mahara mahara 1.4.2 • mahara mahara 1.4.3 • mahara mahara 1.4.4 • mahara mahara 1.5 • mahara mahara 1.5.0 • mahara mahara 1.5.1 • mahara mahara 1.5.2 • mahara mahara 1.5.3

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness

References