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

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• mahara mahara1.10
• mahara mahara1.10.0
• mahara mahara1.10.1
• mahara mahara1.10.2
• mahara mahara1.10.3
• mahara mahara1.10.4
• mahara mahara1.10.5
• mahara mahara1.9
• mahara mahara1.9.0
• mahara mahara1.9.1
• mahara mahara1.9.2
• mahara mahara1.9.3
• mahara mahara1.9.4
• mahara mahara1.9.5
• mahara mahara1.9.6
• mahara mahara1.9.7
• mahara mahara15.04
• mahara mahara15.04.0
• mahara mahara15.04.1
• mahara mahara15.04.2

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2022-45134Mahara 21.10 before 21.10.6, 22.04 before 22.04.4, and 22.10 before 22.10.1 deserializes user input unsafely during skin import.
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• CVE-2022-44544Mahara 21.04 before 21.04.7, 21.10 before 21.10.5, 22.04 before 22.04.3, and 22.10 before 22.10.0 potentially allow a PDF export to trigger
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• CVE-2021-40849In 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 a
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• CVE-2017-1000154Mahara 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 us
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• CVE-2017-1000153Mahara 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
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• CVE-2017-1000152Mahara 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 separat
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FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

State-changing requests rely on the session cookie the browser sends automatically; nothing verifies that the request came from the user’s own page.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true } }));2app.post("/account/address", updateAddress);

1app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true, sameSite: "lax" } }));2app.post("/account/address", csrfProtection, updateAddress);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.