Medium
Security advisory
Mahara 17.04 before 17.04.8 and 17.10 before 17.10.5 and 18.04 before 18.04.1 are vulnerable to the browser "back and refresh" attack. This allows malicious users with physical access to the web browser of a Mahara user, after they have logged in, to potentially gain access to their Mahara credentials.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-11195
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:46 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Mahara 17.04 before 17.04.8 and 17.10 before 17.10.5 and 18.04 before 18.04.1 are vulnerable to the browser "back and refresh" attack. This allows malicious users with physical access to the web browser of a Mahara user, after they have logged in, to potentially gain access to their Mahara credentials.
osv:CVE-2018-11195
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-11195",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
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"title": "CVE-2018-11195",
"summary": "Mahara 17.04 before 17.04.8 and 17.10 before 17.10.5 and 18.04 before 18.04.1 are vulnerable to the browser \"back and refresh\" attack. This allows malicious users with physical access to the web browser of a Mahara user, after they have logged in, to potentially gain access to their Mahara credentials.",
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"17.04.7_RELEASE",
"18.04.0_RELEASE",
"17.04.2_RELEASE",
"17.10.3_RELEASE",
"17.04.6_RELEASE",
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],
"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:21.918976909Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=8269",
"https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1770561"
],
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},
"related_cves": [
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"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 430576,
"published_at": "2018-06-01T19:29:00.223+00:00"
}