CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-28593
5.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-03-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94
Description
The Chat activity in Moodle 4.3.3 allows students to insert a potentially unwanted HTML A element or IMG element, or HTML content that leads to a performance degradation. NOTE: the vendor's Using_Chat page says "If you know some HTML code, you can use it in your text to do things like insert images, play sounds or create different coloured and sized text." This page also says "Chat is due to be removed from standard Moodle."
Affected configurations
• moodle moodle 4.3.3
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness
References
- https://docs.moodle.org/403/en/Using_Chat Product
- https://gist.githubusercontent.com/minendie/4f23174687bc4d8eb7f727d9959b5399/raw/9ce573cebcce5521d9d6f826ab68f3780036b874/CVE-2024-28593.txt Third Party Advisory
- https://medium.com/%40lamscun/how-do-i-change-htmli-from-low-to-critical-your-email-box-is-safe-e7171efd88fe Not Applicable
- https://docs.moodle.org/403/en/Using_Chat Product
- https://gist.githubusercontent.com/minendie/4f23174687bc4d8eb7f727d9959b5399/raw/9ce573cebcce5521d9d6f826ab68f3780036b874/CVE-2024-28593.txt Third Party Advisory
- https://medium.com/%40lamscun/how-do-i-change-htmli-from-low-to-critical-your-email-box-is-safe-e7171efd88fe Not Applicable