PT-2012-1845 · Moodle · Moodle

Helen Foster · Published 2012-07-16 · Updated 2022-05-13 · CVE-2011-4297

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v4.0

6.6

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Moodle versions 2.0.x through 2.0.3 Moodle versions 2.1.x through 2.1.0

Description The issue allows remote attackers to post a comment by leveraging the guest role and operating on a front-page activity, due to improper restriction of comment capabilities in the comment/lib.php file.

Recommendations For Moodle versions 2.0.x through 2.0.3, update to version 2.0.4 or later. For Moodle versions 2.1.x through 2.1.0, update to version 2.1.1 or later.

Fix

Incorrect Authorization

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

CWE-863

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-4297

GHSA-62WV-866C-RH86

Affected Products

Moodle

References · 8

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-62wv-866c-rh86 · Vendor Advisory
• http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=182740 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4297 · Security Note
• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git;a=commit;h=9da3c2efadcc5f56cb8adc19c67ed16be35780f3 · Note
• http://git.moodle.org · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4297 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/14/1 · Note
• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9da3c2efadcc5f56cb8adc19c67ed16be35780f3 · Note