SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-xqhh-253w-4q5f)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 420625

Description

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

- Insufficient escaping of participants' names in the participants page table resulted in a stored XSS risk
when interacting with some features. (CVE-2024-33998)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xqhh-253w-4q5f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 420625

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 9.14

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-33998

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/31/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/31/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-33998

cwe: CWE-79