---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://twitter.com/secunia http://www.facebook.com/Secunia ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Mahara Multiple Vulnerabilities SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA44433 VERIFY ADVISORY: Secunia.com http://secunia.com/advisories/44433/ Customer Area (Credentials Required) https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=44433 RELEASE DATE: 2011-05-14 DISCUSS ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/44433/#comments AVAILABLE ON SITE AND IN CUSTOMER AREA: * Last Update * Popularity * Comments * Criticality Level * Impact * Where * Solution Status * Operating System / Software * CVE Reference(s) http://secunia.com/advisories/44433/ ONLY AVAILABLE IN CUSTOMER AREA: * Authentication Level * Report Reliability * Secunia PoC * Secunia Analysis * Systems Affected * Approve Distribution * Remediation Status * Secunia CVSS Score * CVSS https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=44433 ONLY AVAILABLE WITH SECUNIA CSI AND SECUNIA PSI: * AUTOMATED SCANNING http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/ http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/corporate/wsus_sccm_3rd_third_party_patching/ DESCRIPTION: Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Mahara, which can be exploited by malicious users to bypass certain security restrictions and conduct script insertion attacks and by malicious people to conduct cross-site request forgery attacks. 1) An error in artefact/plans/viewtasks.json.php, artefact/blog/posts.json.php, and blocktype/myfriends/myfriends.json.php when checking a user's permission can be exploited to access restricted views. 2) An error in view/newviewtoken.json.php, artefact/plans/tasks.json.php, and artefact/blog/view/index.json.php when checking a user's permission can be exploited to edit restricted views. 3) An error in admin/users/search.json.php due to the "INSTITUTIONALADMIN" permission not being checked can be exploited to search and suspend other users. 4) The application allows users to perform certain actions via HTTP requests without performing any validity checks to verify the requests. This can be exploited to e.g. create an arbitrary user with administrative privileges if a logged-in administrative user visits a malicious web site. 5) Input passed via certain email fields (e.g. title, body, and author) as a result of forum posts and view feedback notifications is not properly sanitised in artefact/comment/lib.php and interaction/forum/lib.php before being used. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious data is being viewed. The vulnerabilities are reported in version 1.3.5. Prior versions may also be affected. SOLUTION: Update to version 1.3.6. PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: 1, 2, 3, 5) Reporter by the vendor. 4) The vendor credits Bart van Delft. ORIGINAL ADVISORY: https://launchpad.net/mahara/+milestone/1.3.6 OTHER REFERENCES: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/ DEEP LINKS: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/ EXTENDED DESCRIPTION: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/ EXTENDED SOLUTION: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/ EXPLOIT: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- About: This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help private users keeping their systems up to date against the latest vulnerabilities. Subscribe: http://secunia.com/advisories/secunia_security_advisories/ Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.) http://secunia.com/advisories/about_secunia_advisories/ Please Note: Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by clicking the link. Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories. Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only use those supplied by the vendor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: Secunia Security Advisories http://secunia.com/sec_adv_unsubscribe/?email=packet%40packetstormsecurity.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------