CVE•Published 2026-08-17•Modified 2026-08-31•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-42162
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
9.1
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS percentile
28
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 72% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
Mahara before 25.04.5 and 26.04.0 is vulnerable to artefacts being accessible to others under certain circumstances when the file path to an artefact in a page is manipulated.
Timeline
Published 2026-08-17
Modified 2026-08-31
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-42162Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-42162Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-42162Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-42162GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-42162" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2026-42162 on GitHub.