CVE-2012-6037

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: none known
Published: 2012-11-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mahara 1.4.x before 1.4.5 and 1.5.x before 1.5.4, and other versions including 1.2, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a CSV header with "unknown fields," which are not properly handled in error messages in the (1) bulk user, (2) group, and (3) group member upload capabilities. NOTE: this issue was originally part of CVE-2012-2243, but that ID was SPLIT due to different issues by different researchers.

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/1063480
https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=4937
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2591
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1063480
https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=4937

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