CVE-2011-4293 (GCVE-0-2011-4293)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-07-16 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 00:01
VLAI
Summary
The theme implementation in Moodle 2.0.x before 2.0.4 and 2.1.x before 2.1.1 triggers duplicate caching of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript content, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and write to an operating-system temporary directory via unspecified vectors.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2011-11-13 00:00
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