CVE-2019-9709: Mahara

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Mahara 17.10 before 17.10.8, 18.04 before 18.04.4, and 18.10 before 18.10.1. The collection title is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) due to not escaping it when viewing the collection's SmartEvidence overview page (if that feature is turned on). This can be exploited by any logged-in user.

Affected products

• Mahara Mahara: from 17.10.0, before 17.10.8 (fixed in 17.10.8); from 18.04.0, before 18.04.4 (fixed in 18.04.4); from 18.10.0, before 18.10.1 (fixed in 18.10.1)

Published 2019-05-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.