PT-2012-1854 · Moodle · Moodle

Published 2012-07-11 · Updated 2023-02-13 · CVE-2011-4306

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Moodle versions 1.9.x through 1.9.13

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted data in the course/editsection.html page. This could potentially lead to unauthorized actions on behalf of the user.

Recommendations For Moodle versions 1.9.x through 1.9.13, update to version 1.9.14 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the course/editsection.html page to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-4306

DSA-2338-1

GHSA-R729-MX2R-J26J

Affected Products

Moodle

References · 8

• http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=188319 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4306 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-r729-mx2r-j26j · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/4a2acd8c7e6c869d5fd5aa686e6e0a3f20c97f15 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747444 · Note
• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4a2acd8c7e6c869d5fd5aa686e6e0a3f20c97f15 · Note
• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git;a=commit;h=4a2acd8c7e6c869d5fd5aa686e6e0a3f20c97f15 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4306 · Note