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CVE-2010-2230
The KSES text cleaning filter in lib/weblib.php in Moodle before 1.8.13 and 1.9.x before 1.9.9 does not properly handle vbscript URIs,…
- 4.0MediumCVSS base score
- 2.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 17% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The KSES text cleaning filter in lib/weblib.php in Moodle before 1.8.13 and 1.9.x before 1.9.9 does not properly handle vbscript URIs, which allows remote authenticated users to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via HTML input.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 19 days later
· 19 days later
Published
- 14 years later
· 14 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 17% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistmoodle/moodleGHSA-3gm8-32vv-q8mp (opens in a new tab)
References
16
- http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-22042 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://cvs.moodle.org/moodle/lib/weblib.php?r1=1.970.2.171&r2=1.970.2.172 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_1.8.13_release_notes (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2010-10286 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- ADV-2010-1571 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20100621 Re: CVE request: moodle 1.9.9/1.8.13 multiple vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 40352 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2010-1530 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152368 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2010-10321 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- http://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_1.9.9_release_notes (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 40248 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2010-10291 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- http://cvs.moodle.org/moodle/lib/weblib.php?r1=1.812.2.114&r2=1.812.2.115 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2010:014 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=605809 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-2179 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-3gm8-32vv-q8mp (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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