Medium
Security advisory
Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.15, 16.04 before 16.04.9, 16.10 before 16.10.6, and 17.04 before 17.04.4 are vulnerable to a user submitting a potential dangerous payload, e.g., XSS code, to be saved as titles in internal artefacts.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-15273
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:33 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.15, 16.04 before 16.04.9, 16.10 before 16.10.6, and 17.04 before 17.04.4 are vulnerable to a user submitting a potential dangerous payload, e.g., XSS code, to be saved as titles in internal artefacts.
osv:CVE-2017-15273
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:41.194043619Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1719480",
"https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1720034",
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