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Cross-site Request Forgery in Mahara 1.4.0 and 1.3.6
03 November 2011, 17:52
Category: | Cross-site Request Forgery |
Severity: | Medium |
Versions affected: | < 1.3.7, < 1.4.1 |
Reported by: | Mahara Team |
Identifier: | CVE-2011-2773 |
Bug report: | 800032 |
It was discovered that previous versions of Mahara did not check user credentials before processing a request to add a user to an institution. This could enable attackers to trick administrators into adding them to an institution.
If you make use of instititions, you are strongly encouraged to upgrade to the latest version.