CVE-2024-39923

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-08-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

An issue was discovered in Mahara 24.04 before 24.04.2 and 23.04 before 23.04.7. The About, Contact, and Help footer links can be set up to be vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) due to not sanitising the values. These links can only be set up by an admin but are clickable by any logged-in person.

Affected products

mahara: from 23.04.0 before 23.04.7; from 24.04.0 through 24.04.2 — fixed in 23.04.7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: mahara 23.04.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=9546
https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/view.php?id=43

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