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Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-37160
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 8 Nov 2026, 01:45 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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