{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-2253 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2012-2253 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Mahara Mahara, published on 24 Nov 2012. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2012-2253 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2012-2253 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Mahara Mahara, published on 24 Nov 2012. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-2253 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Mahara Mahara. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-2253/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-2253/index.md)","id":"CVE-2012-2253","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-2253/index.md","name":"CVE-2012-2253","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-8v99-pr2q-2j4p"],"analysis":{"component_type":"web_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution","account_takeover"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Mahara ePortfolio","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Remote attackers can inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the query parameter in Mahara's group members page, potentially leading to session hijacking or malicious actions.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"xss"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"debian","cpe":[{"product":"mahara","vendor":"mahara"}],"cvss":{"score":4.3,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-79","name":"Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation"}],"description":"Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in group/members.php in Mahara 1.5.x before 1.5.7 and 1.6.x before 1.6.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the query parameter.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Cross-site scripting in n/a","id":"CVE-2012-2253","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"mahara:mahara","products":["mahara:mahara"],"type":"xss","year":"2012"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER.","id":"CVE-2012-2254"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Security feature bypass in n/a","id":"CVE-2012-2252"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2012-11-24","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Deserialization in n/a","id":"CVE-2022-45134","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-08-22"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Command injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2022-44544","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-11-06"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Auth bypass in n/a","id":"CVE-2021-40849","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-11-03"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Auth bypass in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-1000152","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-11-03"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Auth bypass in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-1000153","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-11-03"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Auth bypass in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-1000154","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-11-03"},{"cvss_score":9.1,"headline":"Information disclosure in n/a","id":"CVE-2024-39335","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-08-26"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-06","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Remote attackers can inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the query parameter in Mahara's group members page, potentially leading to session hijacking or malicious actions.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-2253/"}