CVE-2017-9551: Mahara

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.14 and 16.04 before 16.04.8 and 16.10 before 16.10.5 and 17.04 before 17.04.3 are vulnerable to a user submitting potential dangerous payload, e.g. XSS code, to be saved as their name in the usr_registration table. The values are then emailed to the the user and administrator and if accepted become part of the new user's account.

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 2017-09-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.