Stored cross-site scripting in Moodle - CVE-2022-45151
Published: November 21, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU69469
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-2022-45151
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote user to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in several "social" user profile fields. A remote user can inject 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-2022-45151
Install updates from vendor's website.
Moodle - addressed in versions 3.11.11, 4.0.5
moodle - addressed in versions 3.11.11-1.fc35, 3.11.11-1.fc36, 4.1-1.fc37
moodle - addressed in versions 3.11.11-1.fc35, 3.11.11-1.fc36, 4.1-1.fc37