Several vulnerabilities were discovered in mahara, an electronic portfolio,
weblog, and resume builder. The following Common Vulnerabilities and
Exposures project ids identify them:
- CVE-2010-1667
Multiple pages performed insufficient input sanitising, making them
vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks.
- CVE-2010-1668
Multiple forms lacked protection against cross-site request forgery
attacks, therefore making them vulnerable.
- CVE-2010-1670
Gregor Anzelj discovered that it was possible to accidentally
configure an installation of mahara that allows access to another
user’s account without a password.
- CVE-2010-2479
Certain Internet Explorer-specific cross-site scripting
vulnerabilities were discovered in HTML Purifier, of which a copy
is included in the mahara package.
For the stable distribution (lenny), the problems have been fixed in
version 1.0.4-4+lenny6.
For the testing distribution (squeeze), the problems will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), the problems have been fixed in
version 1.2.5.
We recommend that you upgrade your mahara packages.