CSRF risk in badges backpack management [fedora-41]

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-83ab16425f advisory.

    4.5.5

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-622bed7e7a advisory.

    4.4.9

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to its self-reported version, the Moodle install hosted on the remote host is 4.1.x prior to 4.1.19, or 4.4.x prior to 4.4.9, or 4.5.x prior to 4.5.5, or 5.x prior to 5.0.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities :

- A stricter capability check was required to restrict which users can fetch other users' recently accessed courses information.

- Insufficient authorisation checks could result in users being able to view BigBlueButton recordings they did not have permission to access.

- The "move up" and "move down" actions in backpack management for badges did not include the necessary token to prevent a CSRF risk.

- Insufficient state and capability checks resulted in some details of hidden courses (such as course name, description and teachers) being available to users who did not have permission to access them.

- A DNS rebind risk in the way cURL requests were handled could result in an SSRF risk, due to the possibility of cURL blocked hosts / allowed ports site configurations being bypassed.

- The upstream ADOdb library contained an SQL injection risk in the pg_insert_id() method. It is important to note that the core Moodle LMS was NOT affected by this vulnerability, however as a precaution, this library has been upgraded to remove the risk entirely, in case any third party code/plugins uses the vulnerable code.

- Additional cache controls were required to prevent web browsers caching a user's password on the login page (note accessing this would require access to the web browser on the device where the user had logged in).

Note that the scanner has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
241075	Fedora 42 : moodle (2025-83ab16425f)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
240916	Fedora 41 : moodle (2025-622bed7e7a)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
114893	Moodle 5.0.x < 5.0.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	critical
114892	Moodle 4.5.x < 4.5.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	critical
114891	Moodle 4.4.x < 4.4.9 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	critical
114890	Moodle 4.1.x < 4.1.19 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	critical

Detections

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CVE-2025-49516

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