Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package moodle  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-MOODLE-362223
  • published15 May 2017
  • disclosed15 May 2017

Introduced: 15 May 2017

CVE-2017-7491  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-352  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream moodle package and not the moodle package as distributed by Ubuntu.

In Moodle 2.x and 3.x, a CSRF attack is possible that allows attackers to change the "number of courses displayed in the course overview block" configuration setting.