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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Command injection when PDF bulk is enabled in Mahara before in Mahara before 21.10.1, 21.04.3, and 20.10.4

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Doris ⚡

Posts: 99

09 February 2022, 17:24

This is a follow-up for an already released security fix.

Vulnerability type: Code execution
Attack type: Local
Impact: Ability to gain privileges

Affected components: Exporting of collections with PDF export enabled
Attack vectors: If a person names a collection in a certain way then on exporting it can cause the name to be executed as a command.

Description: In Mahara before 20.10.4, 21.04.3, and 21.10.1, exporting collections via PDF export could cause code execution.

Reported by: Dominic Couture
Bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1949527
CVE reference: 2021-43266

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Kristina Hoeppner - 10 February 2022, 11:27
Kristina Hoeppner - 10 February 2022, 11:29

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