vulnerability

Moodle: (CVE-2016-3734): MSA-16-0018: CSRF in script marking forum posts as read

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 17, 2016
Added
Apr 19, 2017
Modified
Aug 14, 2025

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in markposts.php in Moodle 3.0 through 3.0.3, 2.9 through 2.9.5, 2.8 through 2.8.11, 2.7 through 2.7.13 and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that marks forum posts as read.

Solution

moodle-upgrade-latest
Title
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