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Moodle open redirect vulnerability

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 13, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 26, 2024

Package

composer moodle/moodle (Composer)

Affected versions

>= 2.7.0, < 2.7.9
>= 2.8.0, < 2.8.7
>= 2.9.0, < 2.9.1

Patched versions

2.7.9
2.8.7
2.9.1

Description

Open redirect vulnerability in the clean_param function in lib/moodlelib.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 redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via vectors involving an HTTP Referer header that has a substring match with a local URL.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 22, 2016
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2022
Reviewed Jan 26, 2024
Last updated Jan 26, 2024

Severity

High
7.4
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2015-3272

GHSA ID

GHSA-2hw2-h3mf-c2j9

Source code

Credits

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