Cross-site scripting in Moodle - CVE-2012-2362
Published: July 21, 2012 / Updated: January 16, 2023
Vulnerability identifier: #VU43813
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-2362
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.
The vulnerability is caused by an input validation error in blog/lib.php in the blog implementation in Moodle 1.9.x before 1.9.18, when Internet Explorer is used,. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim's browser in security context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Affected software
Moodle
Fedora
moodle
Fedora
moodle
How to mitigate CVE-2012-2362
Install update from vendor's website.
Moodle - update to 1.9.18
moodle - update to 2.1.6-1.el6
moodle - update to 2.1.6-1.el6