CVE-2010-2479

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-07-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in HTML Purifier before 4.1.1, as used in Mahara and other products, when the browser is Internet Explorer, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Htmlpurifier: through 4.1.0; 1.0.0, 1.0.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2 (+24)
mahara: through 1.0.14; 0.9.0, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2 (+42)

References

http://htmlpurifier.org/news/2010/0531-4.1.1-released
http://repo.or.cz/w/htmlpurifier.git/commitdiff/18e538317a877a0509ae71a860429c41770da230
http://secunia.com/advisories/39613
http://secunia.com/advisories/40431
http://wiki.mahara.org/Release_Notes/1.0.15
http://wiki.mahara.org/Release_Notes/1.1.9
http://wiki.mahara.org/Release_Notes/1.2.5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41259
http://htmlpurifier.org/news/2010/0531-4.1.1-released
http://repo.or.cz/w/htmlpurifier.git/commitdiff/18e538317a877a0509ae71a860429c41770da230
http://secunia.com/advisories/39613
http://secunia.com/advisories/40431

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