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CVE-2021-36397In Moodle, insufficient capability checks meant message deletions were not limited to the current user.
- 5.3MediumCVSS base score
- 0.58%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 51% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In Moodle, insufficient capability checks meant message deletions were not limited to the current user.
Timeline
ID reserved
By fedora
- 20 months later
· 20 months later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.58% · top 51% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Affected products
Moodle
- affected 3.11, 3.10 to 3.10.4, 3.9 to 3.9.7 and earlier unsupported versions
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistmoodle/moodleGHSA-2wmj-8mqg-r9q8 (opens in a new tab)
References
References1
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-2023-0836 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-2wmj-8mqg-r9q8 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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