Name: CVE-2016-2151: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2016-05-22T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2016-2151, CWE-200, CVSS 4.3, EPSS 0.00327

user/index.php in Moodle through 2.6.11, 2.7.x before 2.7.13, 2.8.x before 2.8.11, 2.9.x before 2.9.5, and 3.0.x before 3.0.3 grants excessive authorization on the basis of the moodle/course:viewhiddenuserfields capability, which allows remote authenticated users to discover student e-mail addresses by leveraging the teacher role and reading a Participants list.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.0 Base Score: 4.3
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Freebsd	—	Upgrade moodle28Upgrade moodle30Upgrade moodle29	Dec 10, 2025	Apr 3, 2016
Moodle	—	Upgrade to the latest version of Moodle	Apr 19, 2017	May 22, 2016

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CVSS Details

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