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TITLE:
Mahara Privilege Escalation and Cross-Site Scripting

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA37217

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37217/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Mahara, which can be
exploited by malicious users to gain escalated privileges and by
malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

1) Input passed to the "resume blocktype" is not properly sanitised
before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute
arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context
of an affected site.

2) The application does not properly restrict institution
administrators from resetting the site administrator's password,
which can be exploited to e.g. gain escalated privileges.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.0.13 or 1.1.7.
http://eduforge.org/frs/?group_id=176

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) Sven Vetsch
2) Ruslan Kabalin, Lancaster University Network Services

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
1) http://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=1170
2) http://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=1169

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