FKIE_CVE-2024-43437

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-11-11 13:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 07:51
Severity
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
A flaw was found in moodle. Insufficient sanitizing of data when performing a restore could result in a cross-site scripting (XSS) risk from malicious backup files.
References
patrick@puiterwijk.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2304266Permissions Required
patrick@puiterwijk.orghttps://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=461207Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
moodle moodle *
moodle moodle *
moodle moodle *
moodle moodle *
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