CVE-2024-43437

Moodle: xss risk when restoring malicious course backup file

State: Published
Severity: 5.4 Medium
Published: Nov 11, 2024
Updated: Mar 13, 2025
Reserved: Aug 13, 2024

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.4 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N	fedora

Weaknesses

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
moodle	before 4.1.12Affected 4.2 to before 4.2.9Affected 4.3 to before 4.3.6Affected 4.4 to before 4.4.2Affected

References

RHBZ#2304266issue-tracking
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=461207

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