Create portfolios

Using Mahara, students and staff create their personal learning stories by uploading evidence of activities they have participated in, and embedding publicly accessible content they have previously put online. They can write reflections on their experiences that frame this evidence, map it to competencies or registration requirements, and provide necessary context.

Mahara can be used for many different portfolio purposes, such as study, professional development, work-integrated learning, assessment, showcase and presentation, and employability.

Engage with others

Mahara makes it easy to comment and give feedback. Portfolios can also be submitted to learning management systems via LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) for marking.

Groups in Mahara allow people to create portfolios collaboratively and engage in forum discussions.

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Security issue relating to XSS and saving of display name <15.04.15, <16.04.9, <16.10.6, <17.04.4

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Robert Lyon

Posts: 758

30 October 2017, 14:35

Don't allow saving of firstname, lastname, and preferredname that contain HTML tags

Vuln type: XSS
Impact: Code execution

Suggested description:

Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.15 and 16.04 before 16.04.9 and 16.10 before 16.10.6 and 17.04 before 17.04.4 are vulnerable to a user submitting a potential dangerous payload, e.g., XSS code, to be saved as their first name, last name or display name in the profile fields that can cause issues such as escalation of privileges or unknown execution of malicious code when replying to messages in Mahara.

Reported by: chbi and Robert Lyon
Bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1719491

CVE: CVE-2017-14752

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