CVE-2017-9551

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-09-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.14 and 16.04 before 16.04.8 and 16.10 before 16.10.5 and 17.04 before 17.04.3 are vulnerable to a user submitting potential dangerous payload, e.g. XSS code, to be saved as their name in the usr_registration table. The values are then emailed to the the user and administrator and if accepted become part of the new user's account.

Affected products

mahara: 15.04-rc1, 15.04-rc2, 15.04.0, 15.04.1, 15.04.2, 15.04.3 (+32)

References

https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1697308
https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=8040
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1697308
https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=8040

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