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CVE-2024-45753

• 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: 2025-08-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

In Mahara 23.04.8 and 24.04.4, the external RSS feed block can cause XSS if the external feed XML has a malicious value for the link attribute.

Affected products

• mahara: before 23.04.9; from 24.04.0 before 24.04.5 — fixed in 23.04.9, 24.04.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: mahara 23.04.9, 24.04.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://mahara.org
• https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=9594

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