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Moodle Authentication Bypass in Question-Bank

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 13, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 12, 2024

Package

composer moodle/moodle (Composer)

Affected versions

>= 2.1, < 2.1.6
>= 2.2, < 2.2.3

Patched versions

2.1.6
2.2.3

Description

The question-bank functionality in Moodle 2.1.x before 2.1.6 and 2.2.x before 2.2.3 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended capability requirements and save questions via a save_question action.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 21, 2012
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2022
Reviewed Jan 12, 2024
Last updated Jan 12, 2024

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

0.131%
(49th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2012-2356

GHSA ID

GHSA-3rqj-jchw-9cc7

Source code

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