PT-2013-5288 · Yahoo+1 · Yui+1

Andrew Nicols · Published 2013-07-26 · Updated 2022-05-13 · CVE-2013-4940

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v4.0

5.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Moodle versions prior to 2.1.10 Moodle versions 2.2.x before 2.2.11 Moodle versions 2.3.x before 2.3.8 Moodle versions 2.4.x before 2.4.5 Moodle versions 2.5.x before 2.5.1 Yahoo! YUI version 3.10.2

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue exists, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted string in a URL. This occurs due to a regression.

Recommendations For Moodle versions prior to 2.1.10, update to version 2.1.10 or later. For Moodle versions 2.2.x before 2.2.11, update to version 2.2.11 or later. For Moodle versions 2.3.x before 2.3.8, update to version 2.3.8 or later. For Moodle versions 2.4.x before 2.4.5, update to version 2.4.5 or later. For Moodle versions 2.5.x before 2.5.1, update to version 2.5.1 or later. For Yahoo! YUI version 3.10.2, consider disabling the io.swf component in the IO Utility until a patch is available.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-4940

GHSA-X5HJ-47VV-53P8

Affected Products

Moodle

Yui

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4940 · Security Note
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=232496 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-x5hj-47vv-53p8 · Vendor Advisory
• http://yuilibrary.com/support/20130515-vulnerability · Vendor Advisory
• https://web.archive.org/web/20130909203912/http://yuilibrary.com/support/20130515-vulnerability · Note
• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-39678 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4940 · Note