CVE-2025-67856

Moodle: moodle: privilege escalation via incomplete role checks in badge awarding

State: Published
Severity: 5.4 Medium
Published: Feb 3, 2026
Updated: Feb 26, 2026
Reserved: Dec 12, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in Moodle. An authorization logic flaw, specifically due to incomplete role checks during the badge awarding process, allowed badges to be granted without proper verification. This could enable unauthorized users to obtain badges they are not entitled to, potentially leading to privilege escalation or unauthorized access to certain features.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization

Affected Products

Product	Versions
moodle	4.1.0 to before 4.1.22Affected 4.4.0 to before 4.4.12Affected 4.5.0 to before 4.5.8Affected 5.0.0 to before 5.0.4Affected 5.1.0 to before 5.1.1Affected

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-67856vdb-entry
RHBZ#2423864issue-tracking

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