GHSA-43r4-vm25-qm78
Moodle has multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Forum module
Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Packagist | moodle/moodle | < 2.5.9 | 2.5.9 |
| Packagist | moodle/moodle | >= 2.6.0, < 2.6.6 | 2.6.6 |
| Packagist | moodle/moodle | >= 2.7.0, < 2.7.3 | 2.7.3 |
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Forum module in Moodle through 2.4.11, 2.5.x before 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.6, and 2.7.x before 2.7.3 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that set a tracking preference within (1) mod/forum/deprecatedlib.php, (2) mod/forum/forum.js, (3) mod/forum/index.php, or (4) mod/forum/lib.php.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-7838
- https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/545eb1bcfdbfc352bf6c31edf440485ba6d5af42
- https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/7a311adbba9471edb5a49e4c4b8c356c87f0e44b
- https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/bef4a5e01739f2b239c0910b9e1aa2841b979f7d
- https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/c812956efda7d10dfdce5ae19c0ec8879de38a31
- https://github.com/moodle/moodle
- https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=275164
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150914064838/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031215
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-48019
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/17/11