CVE-2017-9551 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Reference

https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1697308 https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=8040

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

6.1