CVE-2015-5272
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-02-22 02:00
Modified
2024-08-06 06:41
Severity ?
Summary
The Forum module in Moodle 2.7.x before 2.7.10 allows remote authenticated users to post to arbitrary groups by leveraging the teacher role, as demonstrated by a post directed to "all participants."
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-50576
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/21/1
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033619
secalert@redhat.comhttps://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=320288Vendor Advisory
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