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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2022-37160

Claroline 13.5.7 and prior allows an authenticated attacker to elevate privileges via the arbitrary creation of a privileged user. By combining the XSS vulnerability present in several upload forms and a javascript request to the present API, it is possible to trigger the creation of a user with administrative rights by opening an SVG file as an administrator user.

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8 Nov 2026, 01:45 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2022-37160

core-osv · Original source

Published 25 Aug 2022, 16:29 UTC

Claroline 13.5.7 and prior allows an authenticated attacker to elevate privileges via the arbitrary creation of a privileged user. By combining the XSS vulnerability present in several upload forms and a javascript request to the present API, it is possible to trigger the creation of a user with administrative rights by opening an SVG file as an administrator user.

osv:CVE-2022-37160
Complete source record
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