CVE-2025-61872

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Mahara before 25.04.2 and 24.04.11 are vulnerable to displaying results that can trigger XSS via a malicious search query string. This occurs in the 'search site' feature when using the Elasticsearch7 search plugin. The Elasticsearch function does not properly sanitize input in the query parameter.

Published 2026-04-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.