Cross-site request forgery in Moodle - CVE-2022-45149

 

Cross-site request forgery in Moodle - CVE-2022-45149

Published: November 21, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU69471
CSH Severity: Low
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-2022-45149
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 in course redirect URL. 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.


Affected software

Moodle
Fedora
moodle

How to mitigate CVE-2022-45149

Install updates from vendor's website.

Moodle - addressed in versions 3.9.18, 3.11.11, 4.0.5
moodle - addressed in versions 3.11.11-1.fc35, 3.11.11-1.fc36, 4.1-1.fc37

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