Improper Access Control Affecting moodle/moodle package, versions <2.5.8>=2.6.0, <2.6.5>=2.7.0, <2.7.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-MOODLEMOODLE-6226900
  • published2 Feb 2024
  • disclosed13 May 2022
  • creditAmanda Doughty

Introduced: 13 May 2022

CVE-2014-3617  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade moodle/moodle to version 2.5.8, 2.6.5, 2.7.2 or higher.

Overview

moodle/moodle is a learning platform.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control via the forum_print_latest_discussions function. An attacker can discover an author's username by leveraging the student role and visiting a Q&A forum without the required capability to view individual answer postings.

CVSS Scores

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