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Moodle SpellChecker Path Authenticated Remote Command Execution

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Disclosed
2021-06-22
Created
2021-10-12

Description

Moodle allows an authenticated administrator to define spellcheck settings via the web interface.
An administrator can update the aspell path to include a command injection. This is extremely
similar to CVE-2013-3630, just using a different variable.

This module was tested against Moodle version 3.11.2, 3.10.0, and 3.8.0.

Authors

Adam Reiser
h00die

Platform

PHP

Architectures

php

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands ‘show options’ or ‘show advanced’:


    msf > use exploit/multi/http/moodle_spelling_path_rce
    msf exploit(moodle_spelling_path_rce) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(moodle_spelling_path_rce) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(moodle_spelling_path_rce) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(moodle_spelling_path_rce) > exploit
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