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Moodle does not enforce the moodle/site:accessallgroups capability requirement

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 13, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 24, 2024

Package

composer moodle/moodle (Composer)

Affected versions

< 2.5.7
>= 2.6.0, < 2.6.4
>= 2.7.0, < 2.7.1

Patched versions

2.5.7
2.6.4
2.7.1

Description

mod/forum/classes/post_form.php in Moodle through 2.3.11, 2.4.x before 2.4.11, 2.5.x before 2.5.7, 2.6.x before 2.6.4, and 2.7.x before 2.7.1 does not enforce the moodle/site:accessallgroups capability requirement before proceeding with a post to all groups, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging two or more group memberships.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 29, 2014
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2022
Reviewed Jan 24, 2024
Last updated Jan 24, 2024

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(39th percentile)

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2014-3553

GHSA ID

GHSA-mg69-5q59-8jcg

Source code

Credits

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