Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package moodle  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1810-MOODLE-626695
  • published22 Feb 2016
  • disclosed22 Feb 2016

Introduced: 22 Feb 2016

CVE-2015-3274  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.10.

NVD Description

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

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the user_get_user_details function in user/lib.php in Moodle through 2.6.11, 2.7.x before 2.7.9, 2.8.x before 2.8.7, and 2.9.x before 2.9.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by leveraging absence of an external_format_text call in a web service.