CVE-2012-2243 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2012-2243

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mahara 1.4.x before 1.4.5 and...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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High 7.5

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

mahara
Vulnerable Versions:
1.4, 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.4.4, 1.5, 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3

Timeline

Official Publish: November 24th, 2012
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.