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Moodle: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (CVE-2008-0123)

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Moodle: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (CVE-2008-0123)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
01/12/2008
Created
11/13/2019
Added
11/07/2019
Modified
11/07/2019

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in install.php for Moodle 1.8.3, and possibly other versions before 1.8.4, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the dbname parameter. NOTE: this issue only exists until the installation is complete.

Solution(s)

  • moodle-upgrade-latest

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