CVE-2011-1404

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 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: 2011-05-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Mahara before 1.3.6 does not properly restrict the data in responses to AJAX calls, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information via a request associated with (1) blocktype/myfriends/myfriends.json.php, (2) json/usersearch.php, (3) group/membersearchresults.json.php, or (4) json/friendsearch.php, as demonstrated by information about friends and e-mail addresses.

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/67395
https://launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/772140
https://launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/772160
https://launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/772174
https://launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/772179
https://launchpad.net/mahara/+milestone/1.3.6
http://secunia.com/advisories/44433
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2246
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47798

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