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 their first name, last name, or display name in the profile fields that can cause issues such as escalation of privileges or unknown execution of malicious code when replying to messages in Mahara.
CVE-2017-14752
Score 5.4 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2022-05-17. NVD baseline CVSS 5.4; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 5.4
- EG Score
- 5.4(medium)
- EG Risk
- 29(Track)EG Risk 29/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity54% × 45%Exploitation1% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 1%
- EPSS %ILE
- 50%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
October 31, 2017
Last Modified
June 17, 2026
References (2)
- cve@mitrehttps://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1719491
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1719491
Weakness Classification(1)
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