Mahara 16.10 before 16.10.7 and 17.04 before 17.04.5 and 17.10 before 17.10.2 have a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability when a user enters invalid UTF-8 characters. These are now going to be discarded in Mahara along with NULL characters and invalid Unicode characters. Mahara will also avoid direct $_GET and $_POST usage where possible, and instead use param_exists() and the correct param_*() function to fetch the expected value.
References
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https://reviews.mahara.org/#/c/8191/ | Vendor Advisory |
https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=8149 | Vendor Advisory |
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1732987 | Third Party Advisory |
Configurations
Configuration 1 (hide)
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Information
Published : 2018-02-20 14:29
Updated : 2018-03-16 07:37
NVD link : CVE-2017-17454
Mitre link : CVE-2017-17454
JSON object : View
CWE
CWE-79
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Products Affected
mahara
- mahara