Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package moodle  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1604-MOODLE-1065930
  • published29 Jan 2021
  • disclosed28 Jan 2021

Introduced: 28 Jan 2021

CVE-2021-20183  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

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

It was found in Moodle before version 3.10.1 that some search inputs were vulnerable to reflected XSS due to insufficient escaping of search queries.