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Moodle allows attackers to obtain sensitive personal-contact and unread-message-count information

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 13, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 25, 2024

Package

composer moodle/moodle (Composer)

Affected versions

< 2.6.9
>= 2.7.0, < 2.7.6
>= 2.8.0, < 2.8.4

Patched versions

2.6.9
2.7.6
2.8.4

Description

message/index.php in Moodle through 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.9, 2.7.x before 2.7.6, and 2.8.x before 2.8.4 does not consider the moodle/site:readallmessages capability before accessing arbitrary conversations, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive personal-contact and unread-message-count information via a modified URL.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 1, 2015
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2022
Last updated Jan 25, 2024
Reviewed Jan 25, 2024

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

0.124%
(48th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2015-2266

GHSA ID

GHSA-35pr-gqm6-r366

Source code

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