PT-2016-5033 · Moodle · Moodle

Ian Song · Published 2016-03-25 · Updated 2022-05-13 · CVE-2016-2153

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 2.6.11 and earlier Moodle versions 2.7.x through 2.7.12 Moodle versions 2.8.x through 2.8.10 Moodle versions 2.9.x through 2.9.4 Moodle versions 3.0.x through 3.0.2

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue exists in the advanced-search feature in mod data, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted field in a URL. This can be demonstrated by a search form field.

Recommendations For Moodle versions 2.6.11 and earlier, update to version 2.7.13 or later. For Moodle versions 2.7.x through 2.7.12, update to version 2.7.13 or later. For Moodle versions 2.8.x through 2.8.10, update to version 2.8.11 or later. For Moodle versions 2.9.x through 2.9.4, update to version 2.9.5 or later. For Moodle versions 3.0.x through 3.0.2, update to version 3.0.3 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-2153

GHSA-MJ85-3HQQ-R6R9

MGASA-2016-0122

Affected Products

Moodle

References · 28

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2153 · Security Note
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=330175 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-2153 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-mj85-3hqq-r6r9 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0122 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0122.html · Security Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/8f95eac1634b4d84053cef52a03065e620d6adf2 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/a5fae3b0d21cc85a7ea2d2c2af8c7fc9acf2fd92 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/ead2dd9c161fcfde04ee1fa602e9101a47c53503 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/87e60e529939c60ef5b07d70c37426d359b2e8a2 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/de60fc23aeeef5631d5718469124af3257383ead · Note
• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-52727 · Note
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=330181 · Note
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=330176 · Note