Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2540-1 mahara -- cross-site scripting

Date Reported:
07 Sep 2012
Affected Packages:
mahara
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-2237.
More information:

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that Mahara, an electronic portfolio, weblog, and resume builder, contains multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities due to missing sanitization and insufficient encoding of user-supplied data.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.6-2+squeeze5.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), these problems will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.5.1-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your mahara packages.