- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 14.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
In Moodle 2.x and 3.x, SQL injection can occur via user preferences.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Moodle 2.x/3.x - SQL Injection (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 41828webapps, phppublished 6 Apr 2017Not verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 41828 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 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 | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 14.5% · top 3.3% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
Moodle 2.x and 3.x
- affected Moodle 2.x and 3.x
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistmoodle/moodleGHSA-xhq3-455r-xv44 (opens in a new tab)
References
4
- 41828 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 96977 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=349419 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1038174 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_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-2022-5800 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-xhq3-455r-xv44 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2017-2641)Record last updated .