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Moodle Improper Input Validation vulnerability

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 7, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Mar 13, 2023

Package

composer moodle/moodle (Composer)

Affected versions

>= 3.11.0-beta, < 3.11.1
>= 3.10.0-beta, < 3.10.5
< 3.9.8

Patched versions

3.11.1
3.10.5
3.9.8

Description

In affected versions of Moodle, users' names require additional sanitizing in the account confirmation email, to prevent a self-registration phishing risk. This issue has been patched in versions 3.9.8, 3.10.5 and 3.11.1.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 6, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 7, 2023
Reviewed Mar 8, 2023
Last updated Mar 13, 2023

Severity

Moderate
5.3
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-36402

GHSA ID

GHSA-gv8f-43pg-c5qw

Source code

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