Debian DSA-1778-1 : mahara - insufficient input sanitization

medium Nessus Plugin ID 36843

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

It was discovered that mahara, an electronic portfolio, weblog, and resume builder, is prone to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks because of missing input sanitization of the introduction text field in user profiles and any text field in a user view.

The oldstable distribution (etch) does not contain mahara.

Solution

Upgrade the mahara packages.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.4-4+lenny2.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1778

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 36843

File Name: debian_DSA-1778.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/23/2009

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mahara, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 4/22/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0664

CWE: 79

DSA: 1778