CVE-2016-3734 (GCVE-0-2016-3734)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-04-20 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:03
VLAI
Summary
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in markposts.php in Moodle 3.0 through 3.0.3, 2.9 through 2.9.5, 2.8 through 2.8.11, 2.7 through 2.7.13 and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that marks forum posts as read.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-05-17 00:00
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