A flaw was found in moodle where the description user field was not hidden when being set as a hidden user field.

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

  - A flaw was found in moodle where the description user field was not hidden when being set as a hidden user     field. (CVE-2022-30597)

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:

  - A flaw was found in moodle where the description user field was not hidden when being set as a hidden user
    field. (CVE-2022-30597)

The version of Moodle installed on the remote host is 3.9.x prior to 3.9.14, 3.10.x prior to 3.10.11, 3.11.x prior to 3.11.7 or 4.0.x prior to 4.0.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

 - A stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in ID numbers displayed when bulk allocating markers to assignments. (CVE-2022-30596)

 - An improper handling of the description user field which is not hidden when being set as a hidden user field. (CVE-2022-30597)

 - An information disclosure in the global search results which could include author information on some activities where a user may not otherwise have access to it. (CVE-2022-30598)

 - An SQL injection in badges code relating to configuring criteria available to site administrators. (CVE-2022-30599)

 - A bypass in the account lockout treshold due to an issue in the logic used to count failed login attempts. (CVE-2022-30600)

 - A vulnerable version of mlbackend python library included in Moodle.

Note that the scanner has not attempted to exploit this issue but has instead relied only on application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
261516	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-30597	Nessus	Misc.	medium
420332	SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-x6gm-qqwp-76gr)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
420332	SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-x6gm-qqwp-76gr)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium
113606	Moodle 4.0.x < 4.0.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	critical
113605	Moodle 3.11.x < 3.11.7 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	critical
113604	Moodle 3.10.x < 3.10.11 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	critical
113603	Moodle 3.9.x < 3.9.14 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	critical

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2022-30597

medium

Tenable Plugins

medium

medium

medium

critical

critical

critical

critical