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CVE-2017-7489
In Moodle 2.x and 3.x, remote authenticated users can take ownership of arbitrary blogs by editing an external blog link.
Medium6.3EPSS 1.2%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
In Moodle 2.x and 3.x, remote authenticated users can take ownership of arbitrary blogs by editing an external blog link.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 40 days later
· 40 days 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 | Medium6.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 31% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.3.
Weakness
- incorrect access control
- CWE-269 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-269 and its CVEs
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-m34m-fgh4-v7cx (opens in a new tab)
References (1)
- https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=352353 (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)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-m34m-fgh4-v7cx (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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