PT-2016-1303 · Moodle · Moodle

Andrew Nicols · Published 2015-12-05 · Updated 2022-05-13 · CVE-2015-5337

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Moodle versions prior to 2.6.11 Moodle versions 2.7.x before 2.7.11 Moodle versions 2.8.x before 2.8.9 Moodle versions 2.9.x before 2.9.3

Description The issue is related to insufficient restriction of the availability of Flowplayer, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted .swf file. This can be exploited by a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.6.11, update to version 2.6.11 or later. For versions 2.7.x before 2.7.11, update to version 2.7.11 or later. For versions 2.8.x before 2.8.9, update to version 2.8.9 or later. For versions 2.9.x before 2.9.3, update to version 2.9.3 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

BDU:2016-00600

CVE-2015-5337

GHSA-2HW6-6RGF-726V

MGASA-2015-0464

Affected Products

Moodle

References · 25

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5337 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-2hw6-6rgf-726v · Vendor Advisory
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=323232 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-00600 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0464 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0464.html · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5337 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5337 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5337 · Security Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/c73f6d03e5037729097bb9f5f5a55be15f3cab18 · Note
• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-48085 · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17280 · Note
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=323237 · Note
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=323229 · Note