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Moodle has multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Forum module

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 13, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 24, 2024

Package

composer moodle/moodle (Composer)

Affected versions

< 2.5.9
>= 2.6.0, < 2.6.6
>= 2.7.0, < 2.7.3

Patched versions

2.5.9
2.6.6
2.7.3

Description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Forum module in Moodle through 2.4.11, 2.5.x before 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.6, and 2.7.x before 2.7.3 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that set a tracking preference within (1) mod/forum/deprecatedlib.php, (2) mod/forum/forum.js, (3) mod/forum/index.php, or (4) mod/forum/lib.php.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 24, 2014
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2022
Reviewed Jan 24, 2024
Last updated Jan 24, 2024

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

0.160%
(53rd percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2014-7838

GHSA ID

GHSA-43r4-vm25-qm78

Source code

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