CVE-2022-35650The vulnerability was found in Moodle, occurs due to input validation error when importing lesson questions. This insufficient path checks…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 53.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The vulnerability was found in Moodle, occurs due to input validation error when importing lesson questions. This insufficient path checks results in arbitrary file read risk. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform directory traversal attacks. The capability to access this feature is only available to teachers, managers and admins by default.
Timeline
ID reserved
By fedora
- 13 days later
· 13 days 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 53.7% · top 1.0% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
Moodle
- affected Fixed in moodle 4.0.2, moodle 3.11.8, moodle 3.9.15
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistmoodle/moodleGHSA-pgm5-cr62-prxq (opens in a new tab)
References
References5
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2106274 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=436457 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-72029 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-81ce74b2dd (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-7e7ce7df2e (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_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-2022-6384 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-pgm5-cr62-prxq (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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