CVE-2024-39923

Published Aug 25, 2025 CVSS 3.1 · 6.1 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-54911 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.
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Mahara
Mahara mahara
Vendors & Products Mahara
Mahara mahara
Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-79
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description 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.
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Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 25, 2025, 8:38 PM
Reserved
Jul 3, 2024, 12:00 AM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Aug 25, 2025, 2:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 7:43 AM