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Moodle: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (CVE-2021-36568)

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Moodle: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (CVE-2021-36568)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/13/2022
Created
09/19/2022
Added
09/19/2022
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

In certain Moodle products after creating a course, it is possible to add in a arbitrary "Topic" a resource, in this case a "Database" with the type "Text" where its values "Field name" and "Field description" are vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting Stored(XSS). This affects Moodle 3.11 and Moodle 3.10.4 and Moodle 3.9.7.

Solution(s)

  • moodle-upgrade-latest

References

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