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Moodle cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability

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

Package

composer moodle/moodle (Composer)

Affected versions

< 2.6.11
>= 2.7.0, < 2.7.8
>= 2.8.0, < 2.8.6

Patched versions

2.6.11
2.7.8
2.8.6

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the external_format_text function in lib/externallib.php in Moodle through 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.11, 2.7.x before 2.7.8, and 2.8.x before 2.8.6 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML into an external application via a crafted string that is visible to web services.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 1, 2015
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2022
Reviewed Jan 26, 2024
Last updated Jan 26, 2024

Severity

Low

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2015-3178

GHSA ID

GHSA-9fmw-m4qx-6cq8

Source code

Credits

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