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CVE-2012-2243

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2243 is a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting Mahara versions 1.4.x before 1.4.5 and 1.5.x before 1.5.4. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by uploading a specially crafted XML file with an xhtml extension, which is then rendered inline. With a CVSS score of 4.3, this vulnerability has a medium attack complexity and can lead to information disclosure (integrity impact is partial). While there is no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code, and minimal community discussion, it is noteworthy that this XSS can be chained with CVE-2012-2244 to achieve unauthenticated arbitrary code execution.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.4:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.4:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.4:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.4:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.85%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0285 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

bugs.launchpad.net / mahara/+bug/1055232
mahara.org / interaction/forum/topic.php
PatchVendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2012/dsa-2591