Mahara before 25.04.5 and 26.04.0 is vulnerable in the Text block/section functionality when a call is crafted in a certain way that allows it to recall the backed-up content from another Text section.

Mahara before 25.04.5 and 26.04.0 is vulnerable to artefacts being accessible to others under certain circumstances when the file path to an artefact in a page is manipulated.

Mahara before 25.04.5 and 26.04.0 is vulnerable to unauthorized access to internal accounts via Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) under certain circumstances. This applies to LTI 1.1 and LTI 1.3 Advantage.

Privilege Escalation via Masquerading in Multi‑Tenant Mahara

In Mahara before 24.04.10 and 25 before 25.04.1, an institution administrator or institution support administrator on a multi-tenanted site can masquerade as an institution member in an institution for which they are not an administrator, if they also have the 'Site staff' role.

Mahara XSS Vulnerability via Malicious Search Query in Elasticsearch7 Plugin

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.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the resume blocktype in Mahara before 1.0.13, and 1.1.x before 1.1.7, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mahara 1.0 before 1.0.10 and 1.1 before 1.1.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a (1) profile and (2) blog, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-0487.

Mahara 1.1 before 1.1.5 does not apply permission checks when saving a view that contains artefacts, which allows remote authenticated users to read another user's artefact.

Unspecified vulnerability in Mahara before 0.9.1 has unknown impact and remote attack vectors, probably related to cross-site scripting (XSS) in uploaded files.

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mahara 1.0 before 1.0.12 and 1.1 before 1.1.5 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unknown vectors.

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mahara 1.0.x before 1.0.11 and 1.1.x before 1.1.3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the introduction field in a user profile or (2) an arbitrary text block in a user view.

Mahara before 1.0.13, and 1.1.x before 1.1.7, allows remote authenticated institution administrators to reset a site administrator password via unspecified vectors.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mahara before 1.0.9 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted forum post.

An issue was discovered in Mahara 23.04.8 and 24.04.4. Attackers may utilize escalation of privileges in certain cases when logging into Mahara with Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI).

Mahara 21.10 before 21.10.6, 22.04 before 22.04.4, and 22.10 before 22.10.1 deserializes user input unsafely during skin import. A particularly structured XML file could cause code execution when being processed.

Mahara 21.10 before 21.10.6, 22.04 before 22.04.4, and 22.10 before 22.10.1 allows unsafe font upload for skins. A particularly structured XML file could allow one to traverse the server to obtain access to secure files or cause code execution based on the payload.

Mahara before 22.10.4 and 23.x before 23.04.4 allows information disclosure if the experimental HTML bulk export is used via the administration interface or via the CLI, and the resulting export files are given to the account holders. They may contain images of other account holders because the cache is not cleared after the files of one account are exported.

An issue was discovered in Mahara 24.04 before 24.04.2 and 23.04 before 23.04.7. The About, Contact, and Help footer links can be set up to be vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) due to not sanitising the values. These links can only be set up by an admin but are clickable by any logged-in person.

In Mahara 23.04.8 and 24.04.4, the external RSS feed block can cause XSS if the external feed XML has a malicious value for the link attribute.

Mahara before 24.04.9 exposes database connection information if the database becomes unreachable, e.g., due to the database server being temporarily down or too busy.