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CVE-2025-3643 (GCVE-0-2025-3643)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-25 14:43 – Updated: 2025-04-28 16:35
VLAI
Title
Moodle: reflected xss risk in policy tool
Summary
A flaw was found in Moodle. The return URL in the policy tool required additional sanitizing to prevent a reflected Cross-site scripting (XSS) risk.
Severity
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-25 15:42 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Affected: 4.5.0 , < 4.5.4 (semver)
Affected: 4.4.0 , < 4.4.8 (semver)
Affected: 4.3.0 , < 4.3.12 (semver)
Affected: 4.1.0 , < 4.1.18 (semver)
Date Public
2025-04-22 12:00
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