CVE-2021-36568 (GCVE-0-2021-36568)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-13 21:06 – Updated: 2024-08-04 01:01
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Summary
In certain Moodle products after creating a course, it is possible to add in a arbitrary "Topic" a resource, in this case a "Database" with the type "Text" where its values "Field name" and "Field description" are vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting Stored(XSS). This affects Moodle 3.11 and Moodle 3.10.4 and Moodle 3.9.7.
Severity
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2349 records in the last 180 days details
References
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