CVE-2023-23922 Moodle: reflected xss risk in blog search

2023-02-1700:00:00

CWE-79

fedora

github.com

moodle

blog search

remote attacker

cross-site scripting

AI Score

5.8

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

50.2%

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

Technical Impact

partial

JSON

The vulnerability was found Moodle which exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in blog search. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user’s browser in context of vulnerable website. This flaw allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "4.1.0",
        "lessThan": "4.1.1",
        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "4.0.0",
        "lessThan": "4.0.6",
        "versionType": "semver"
      }
    ],
    "packageName": "moodle",
    "collectionURL": "https://git.moodle.org",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  }
]