Cross-site request forgery in Moodle - CVE-2022-2986
Published: August 31, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU66891
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2986
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website and enable or disable installed H5P libraries.
Affected software
Moodle
How to mitigate CVE-2022-2986
Install updates from vendor's website.
Moodle - addressed in versions 3.11.9, 4.0.3