CVE-2012-2243

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-11-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

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.

Affected products

mahara: 1.4-rc1, 1.4-rc2, 1.4-rc3, 1.4-rc4, 1.4.0, 1.4.1 (+9)

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2591
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1055232
https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=4937
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2591
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1055232
https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=4937

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