Stored cross-site scripting in Moodle - CVE-2020-25702
Published: November 16, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU48446
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-25702
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data when re-naming content bank items. A remote user can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in 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-2020-25702
Install updates from vendor's website.
Moodle - update to 3.9.3
moodle - addressed in versions 3.8.6-1.fc32, 3.9.3-1.fc33
moodle - addressed in versions 3.8.6-1.fc32, 3.9.3-1.fc33