PT-2016-5032 · Moodle · Moodle

Jay Knight · Published 2016-03-25 · Updated 2022-05-13 · CVE-2016-2152

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 2.7.13 Moodle versions 2.8.x before 2.8.11 Moodle versions 2.9.x before 2.9.5 Moodle versions 3.0.x before 3.0.3

Description The issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an external DB profile field, which can lead to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. This occurs due to multiple XSS vulnerabilities in the auth/db/auth.php file.

Recommendations For Moodle versions prior to 2.6.11, update to version 2.6.11 or later. For Moodle versions 2.7.x before 2.7.13, update to version 2.7.13 or later. For Moodle versions 2.8.x before 2.8.11, update to version 2.8.11 or later. For Moodle versions 2.9.x before 2.9.5, update to version 2.9.5 or later. For Moodle versions 3.0.x before 3.0.3, update to version 3.0.3 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-2152

GHSA-6MXM-WPQV-675H

MGASA-2016-0122

Affected Products

Moodle

References · 32

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-6mxm-wpqv-675h · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2152 · Security Note
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=330174 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0122 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0122.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-2152 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/54d6ee8c0874d72705ffa4c7c17d7c90bc16c897 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/ce597604763272396e5cb8ec93859a8568020b8b · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/f4fcb1c4f76488d4571d3d265efce3813676c45d · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/82d0c0b5218e9ceb35a4e24b4a4e1e2e9cfc840c · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/4ee7394c8bfa95a63428385b542c2066cd2d8ea1 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/61da84e4148aa1de83a6389eb77abf3bbf09a349 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/4db8407d3eaba17a8d3f81957b8e93e9f2554055 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/3b214760fb51ae2b0c85bbb2b272b9bc7c164657 · Note