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Moodle stored-XSS vulnerability in some "social" user profile fields

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Nov 23, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 23, 2024

Package

composer moodle/moodle (Composer)

Affected versions

>= 3.11, < 3.11.11
>= 4.0, < 4.0.5

Patched versions

3.11.11
4.0.5

Description

The stored-XSS vulnerability was discovered in Moodle which exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in several "social" user profile fields. An attacker could inject and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 23, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Nov 23, 2022
Reviewed Apr 23, 2024
Last updated Apr 23, 2024

Severity

Moderate
5.4
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

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

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-45151

GHSA ID

GHSA-xv72-6pgh-cjj8

Source code

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