Moodle 3.x has XSS in the contact form on the "non-respondents" page in non-anonymous feedback.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Moodle 3.x has XSS in the contact form on the non-respondents page in non-anonymous feedback.
    (CVE-2017-12156)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - Moodle 3.x has XSS in the contact form on the "non-respondents" page in non-anonymous feedback.
    (CVE-2017-12156)

Patches for CVE-2017-12156, CVE-2017-12157.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
261309	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-12156	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium
432861	SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-7mfw-g8x4-rq2w)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium
432861	SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-7mfw-g8x4-rq2w)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium
103615	Fedora 25 : moodle (2017-c840f79347)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium
103548	Fedora 26 : moodle (2017-9a452dc893)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium

Detections

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CVE-2017-12156

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