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Moodle: (CVE-2016-2152): MSA-16-0004: XSS from profile fields from external db

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Moodle: (CVE-2016-2152): MSA-16-0004: XSS from profile fields from external db

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
03/21/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/19/2017
Modified
01/12/2023

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in auth/db/auth.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 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an external DB profile field.

Solution(s)

  • moodle-upgrade-latest

References

  • CVE-2016-2152

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