CVE-2021-20186 (GCVE-0-2021-20186)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-01-28 18:38 – Updated: 2024-08-03 17:30
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Summary
It was found in Moodle before version 3.10.1, 3.9.4, 3.8.7 and 3.5.16 that if the TeX notation filter was enabled, additional sanitizing of TeX content was required to prevent the risk of stored XSS.
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n/a moodle Affected: moodle 3.10.1, moodle 3.9.4, moodle 3.8.7, moodle 3.5.16
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