cve-2021-20186
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-01-28 18:38
Modified
2024-08-03 17:30
Severity ?
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=417170Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=417170Patch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a moodle Version: moodle 3.10.1, moodle 3.9.4, moodle 3.8.7, moodle 3.5.16
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