CVE-2017-14752: Mahara

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Mahara Mahara: version 15.04 only; version 15.04.0 only; version 15.04.1 only; version 15.04.2 only; version 15.04.3 only; version 15.04.4 only; …

Published 2017-10-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.