CVE-2015-5331
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-02-22 02:00
Modified
2024-08-06 06:41
Severity ?
Summary
Moodle 2.9.x before 2.9.3 does not properly check the contact list before authorizing message transmission, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions and conduct spam attacks via the messaging API.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-50426
secalert@redhat.comhttps://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=323228Vendor Advisory
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