Improper Authorization Affecting moodle/moodle package, versions <2.5.9>=2.6.0, <2.6.6>=2.7.0, <2.7.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (63rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-MOODLEMOODLE-6189029
  • published25 Jan 2024
  • disclosed13 May 2022
  • creditPetr Skoda

Introduced: 13 May 2022

CVE-2014-7837  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-285  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade moodle/moodle to version 2.5.9, 2.6.6, 2.7.3 or higher.

Overview

moodle/moodle is a learning platform.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authorization via the admin.php file in the mod/wiki directory. An attacker can remove wiki pages by leveraging delete access within a different subwiki. This is only exploitable if the attacker has remote authenticated user access with delete permissions in a subwiki.

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