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CVE-2015-5272 (GCVE-0-2015-5272)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-02-22 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:41
VLAI
Summary
The Forum module in Moodle 2.7.x before 2.7.10 allows remote authenticated users to post to arbitrary groups by leveraging the teacher role, as demonstrated by a post directed to "all participants."
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2015-09-21 00:00
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