Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.8 and 15.10 before 15.10.4 and 16.04 before 16.04.2 are vulnerable to some authentication methods, which do not use Mahara's built-in login form, still allowing users to log in even if their institution was expired or suspended.

Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.10 and 15.10 before 15.10.6 and 16.04 before 16.04.4 are vulnerable to incorrect access control after the password reset link is sent via email and then user changes default email, Mahara fails to invalidate old link.Consequently the link in email can be used to gain access to the user's account.

Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.7 and 15.10 before 15.10.3 running PHP 5.3 are vulnerable to one user being logged in as another user on a separate computer as the same session ID is served. This situation can occur when a user takes an action that forces another user to be logged out of Mahara, such as an admin changing another user's account settings.

In Mahara before 20.04.5, 20.10.3, 21.04.2, and 21.10.0, the account associated with a web services token is vulnerable to being exploited and logged into, resulting in information disclosure (at a minimum) and often escalation of privileges.

Mahara Mobile before 1.2.1 is vulnerable to passwords being sent to the Mahara access log in plain text.

Mahara 1.4.x before 1.4.4 and 1.5.x before 1.5.3 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files or create TCP connections via an XML external entity (XXE) injection attack, as demonstrated by reading config.php.

Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.7 and 15.10 before 15.10.3 are vulnerable to prevent session IDs from being regenerated on login or logout. This makes users of the site more vulnerable to session fixation attacks.

Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.8 and 15.10 before 15.10.4 and 16.04 before 16.04.2 are vulnerable to PHP code execution as Mahara would pass portions of the XML through the PHP "unserialize()" function when importing a skin from an XML file.

An issue was discovered in Mahara before 15.04.14, 16.x before 16.04.8, 16.10.x before 16.10.5, and 17.x before 17.04.3. When one closes the browser without logging out of Mahara, the value in the usrsession table is not removed. If someone were to open a browser, visit the Mahara site, and adjust the 'mahara' cookie to the old value, they can get access to the user's account.

Mahara before 20.10.5, 21.04.4, 21.10.2, and 22.04.0 is vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) because randomly generated tokens are too easily guessable.

Mahara 1.8 before 1.8.6 and 1.9 before 1.9.4 and 1.10 before 1.10.1 and 15.04 before 15.04.0 are vulnerable because group members can lose access to the group files they uploaded if another group member changes the access permissions on them.

Mahara 1.8 before 1.8.7 and 1.9 before 1.9.5 and 1.10 before 1.10.3 and 15.04 before 15.04.0 are vulnerable to server-side request forgery attacks as not all processes of curl redirects are checked against a white or black list. Employing SafeCurl will prevent issues.

In Mahara before 20.04.5, 20.10.3, 21.04.2, and 21.10.0, exported CSV files could contain characters that a spreadsheet program could interpret as a command, leading to execution of a malicious string locally on a device, aka CSV injection.

Mahara before 1.0.15, 1.1.x before 1.1.9, and 1.2.x before 1.2.5 has improper configuration options for authentication plugins associated with logins that use the single sign-on (SSO) functionality, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via an empty password. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

SQL injection vulnerability in Mahara 1.1.x before 1.1.9 and 1.2.x before 1.2.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via unspecified vectors.

Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.8 and 15.10 before 15.10.4 and 16.04 before 16.04.2 are vulnerable to a user - in some circumstances causing another user's artefacts to be included in a Leap2a export of their own pages.

Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.9 and 15.10 before 15.10.5 and 16.04 before 16.04.3 are vulnerable to passwords or other sensitive information being passed by unusual parameters to end up in an error log.

In Mahara before 20.10.5, 21.04.4, 21.10.2, and 22.04.0, a site using Isolated Institutions is vulnerable if more than ten groups are used. They are all shown from page 2 of the group results list (rather than only being shown for the institution that the viewer is a member of).

In Mahara 21.04 before 21.04.6, 21.10 before 21.10.4, and 22.04.2, files can sometimes be downloaded through thumb.php with no permission check.

In Mahara before 20.04.5, 20.10.3, 21.04.2, and 21.10.0, exporting collections via PDF export could lead to code execution via shell metacharacters in a collection name. Additional, in Mahara before 20.10.4, 21.04.3, and 21.10.1, exporting collections via PDF export could cause code execution

Mahara 1.4.x before 1.4.5 and 1.5.x before 1.5.4 allows remote attackers to conduct clickjacking attacks to delete arbitrary users and bypass CSRF protection via account/delete.php.

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the pieforms implementation in Mahara before 1.3.6 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests to any form, related to inappropriate regeneration of session keys.

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in Mahara before 1.0.15, 1.1.x before 1.1.9, and 1.2.x before 1.2.5 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims via unknown vectors.

Mahara 1.9 before 1.9.8 and 1.10 before 1.10.6 and 15.04 before 15.04.3 are vulnerable to perform a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack on the uploader contained in Mahara's filebrowser widget. This could allow an attacker to trick a Mahara user into unknowingly uploading malicious files into their Mahara account.

Mahara before 1.3.6 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions, and suspend a user account, edit a view, visit a view, edit a plan artefact, read a plans block, read a plan artefact, edit a blog, read a blog block, read a blog artefact, or access a block, via a request associated with (1) admin/users/search.json.php, (2) view/newviewtoken.json.php, (3) lib/mahara.php, (4) artefact/plans/tasks.json.php, (5) artefact/plans/viewtasks.json.php, (6) artefact/blog/view/index.json.php, (7) artefact/blog/posts.json.php, or (8) blocktype/myfriends/myfriends.json.php, related to incorrect privilege enforcement, a missing user id check, and incorrect enforcement of the Overriding Start/Stop Dates setting.

Mahara 1.8 before 1.8.6 and 1.9 before 1.9.4 and 1.10 before 1.10.1 and 15.04 before 15.04.0 are vulnerable to old sessions not being invalidated after a password change.

Mahara 1.8 before 1.8.7 and 1.9 before 1.9.5 and 1.10 before 1.10.3 and 15.04 before 15.04.0 are vulnerable to users being able to delete their submitted page through URL manipulation.

Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.8 and 15.10 before 15.10.4 and 16.04 before 16.04.2 are vulnerable to users staying logged in to their Mahara account even when they have been logged out of Moodle (when using MNet) as Mahara did not properly implement one of the MNet SSO API functions.

Mahara 1.8 before 1.8.7 and 1.9 before 1.9.5 and 1.10 before 1.10.3 and 15.04 before 15.04.0 are vulnerable as logged-in users can stay logged in after the institution they belong to is suspended.

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.