Medium
Security advisory
Mahara 1.9 before 1.9.6 and 1.10 before 1.10.4 and 15.04 before 15.04.1 are vulnerable to a site admin or institution admin being able to place HTML and Javascript into an institution display name, which will be displayed to other users unescaped on some Mahara system pages.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-1000144
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:11 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Mahara 1.9 before 1.9.6 and 1.10 before 1.10.4 and 15.04 before 15.04.1 are vulnerable to a site admin or institution admin being able to place HTML and Javascript into an institution display name, which will be displayed to other users unescaped on some Mahara system pages.
osv:CVE-2017-1000144
Complete source record
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"method": "structured",
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"summary": "Mahara 1.9 before 1.9.6 and 1.10 before 1.10.4 and 15.04 before 15.04.1 are vulnerable to a site admin or institution admin being able to place HTML and Javascript into an institution display name, which will be displayed to other users unescaped on some Mahara system pages.",
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"versions": [
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}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:49.968435065Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1447377"
],
"provider_metadata": {}
},
"related_cves": [
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 437121,
"published_at": "2017-11-03T18:29:00.683+00:00"
}