CVE-2012-6037
mediumpriority · track · 18EPSS 0.018 · 79 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mahara 1.4.x before 1.4.5 and 1.5.x before 1.5.4, and other versions including 1.2, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a CSV header with "unknown fields," which are not properly handled in error messages in the (1) bulk user, (2) group, and (3) group member upload capabilities. NOTE: this issue was originally part of CVE-2012-2243, but that ID was SPLIT due to different issues by different researchers.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 3.7–4.3
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affected products (12)
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also known as (3)
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references (8)
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- https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1063480cnnvd
- https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=4937cnnvd
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2591enisa_euvd
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1063480enisa_euvd
- https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=4937enisa_euvd
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2591nvd
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1063480nvd
- https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=4937PatchVendor Advisorynvd
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