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CVE-2017-17454

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-17454 describes a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mahara versions 16.10 prior to 16.10.7, 17.04 prior to 17.04.5, and 17.10 prior to 17.10.2, triggered by the submission of invalid UTF-8 characters. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.4) has a low attack complexity and requires user interaction, potentially leading to limited impact on confidentiality and integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 16.10.0, < 16.10.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 17.04.0, < 17.04.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 17.10.0, < 17.10.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.4MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.3
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.71%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
49.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0071 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 15,239 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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/1732987
Third Party Advisory
mahara.org / interaction/forum/topic.php
Vendor Advisory
reviews.mahara.org
Vendor Advisory