CVE-2024-43437 (GCVE-0-2024-43437)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-11 12:19 – Updated: 2025-03-13 14:04
VLAI
Title
Moodle: xss risk when restoring malicious course backup file
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.
Severity
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Affected: 0 , < 4.1.12 (semver)
Affected: 4.2 , < 4.2.9 (semver)
Affected: 4.3 , < 4.3.6 (semver)
Affected: 4.4 , < 4.4.2 (semver)
Date Public
2024-08-19 04:00
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