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Moodle: (CVE-2016-2157): MSA-16-0009: CSRF in Assignment plugin management page

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Moodle: (CVE-2016-2157): MSA-16-0009: CSRF in Assignment plugin management page

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/21/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/19/2017
Modified
01/12/2023

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in mod/assign/adminmanageplugins.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 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that manage Assignment plugins.

Solution(s)

  • moodle-upgrade-latest

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