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.
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 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.
The default configuration of the auth/saml plugin in Mahara before 1.4.2 sets the "Match username attribute to Remote username" option to false, which allows remote SAML IdP servers to spoof users of other SAML IdP servers by using the same internal username.
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in HTML Purifier before 4.1.1, as used in Mahara and other products, when the browser is Internet Explorer, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.
Mahara before 1.3.6 does not properly handle an https URL in the wwwroot configuration setting, which makes it easier for user-assisted remote attackers to obtain credentials by sniffing the network at a time when an http URL is used for a login.
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in blocktype/groupviews/theme/raw/groupviews.tpl in Mahara before 1.3.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mahara before 1.4.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to (1) URI attributes and (2) the External Feed component, as demonstrated by the guid element in an RSS feed.
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) 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 inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.
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.
Mahara before 1.3.6 does not properly restrict the data in responses to AJAX calls, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information via a request associated with (1) blocktype/myfriends/myfriends.json.php, (2) json/usersearch.php, (3) group/membersearchresults.json.php, or (4) json/friendsearch.php, as demonstrated by information about friends and e-mail addresses.
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mahara before 1.3.6 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors associated with HTML e-mail messages, related to artefact/comment/lib.php and interaction/forum/lib.php.