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GHSA-f6mh-79vh-2hv7 Cross-site Scripting in Moodle Chat
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2024-28593
- Ecosystem
- Packagist
- Packages
- moodle/moodle
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79, CWE-94
- Reviewed
- 2024-03-22
Affected packages
• Packagist moodle/moodle: <= 4.3.3 (no fix yet)
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."
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2024-28593 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… vulnerability
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-28593 advisory
- https://docs.moodle.org/403/en/Using_Chat web
- https://gist.githubusercontent.com/minendie/4f23174687bc4d8eb7f727d9959b5399/raw/9ce573cebcce5521d9d6f826ab68f3780036b874/CVE-2024-28593.txt web
- https://github.com/moodle/moodle package
- https://medium.com/%40lamscun/how-do-i-change-htmli-from-low-to-critical-your-email-box-is-safe-e7171efd88fe web