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CVE-2011-1402

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2011-05-13 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Mahara before 1.3.6 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions, and suspend a user account, edit a view, visit a view, edit a plan artefact, read a plans block, read a plan artefact, edit a blog, read a blog block, read a blog artefact, or access a block, via a request associated with (1) admin/users/search.json.php, (2) view/newviewtoken.json.php, (3) lib/mahara.php, (4) artefact/plans/tasks.json.php, (5) artefact/plans/viewtasks.json.php, (6) artefact/blog/view/index.json.php, (7) artefact/blog/posts.json.php, or (8) blocktype/myfriends/myfriends.json.php, related to incorrect privilege enforcement, a missing user id check, and incorrect enforcement of the Overriding Start/Stop Dates setting.

Affected products

• mahara: through 1.3.5; 0.9.0, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2 (+58)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/44433
• http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2246
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47798
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67396
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67397
• https://launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/746182
• https://launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/771592
• https://launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/771614
• https://launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/771623
• https://launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/771637
• https://launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/771644
• https://launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/771653

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