CVE-2011-2771

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-11-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mahara before 1.4.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to (1) URI attributes and (2) the External Feed component, as demonstrated by the guid element in an RSS feed.

Affected products

mahara: through 1.4.0; 0.9.0, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2 (+65)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/46719
http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/m/mahara/mahara_1.2.6-2+squeeze3.debian.tar.gz
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2334
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/798136
https://launchpad.net/mahara/+milestone/1.4.1
http://secunia.com/advisories/46719
http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/m/mahara/mahara_1.2.6-2+squeeze3.debian.tar.gz
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2334
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/798136
https://launchpad.net/mahara/+milestone/1.4.1

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