Secunia Security Advisory - Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Mahara, which can be exploited by malicious users to disclose potentially sensitive information and by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
Mahara Cross-Site Scripting and Information Disclosure
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA35510
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35510/
DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Mahara, which can be
exploited by malicious users to disclose potentially sensitive
information and by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
1) Input passed to unspecified parameters is not properly sanitised
before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute
arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context
of an affected site.
These vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 1.0.12 and
1.1.5.
2) An error can be exploited to gain access to another user's
"artefact" without having the required permission.
This vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.1.5.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.0.12 or 1.1.5.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=752
http://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=753
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