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SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-v759-3wr5-p294)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 431726

Description

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

 - The _bad_protocol_once function in phpgwapi/inc/class.kses.inc.php in KSES, as used in eGroupWare before
 1.4.003, Moodle before 1.8.5, and other products, allows remote attackers to bypass HTML filtering and
 conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a string containing crafted URL protocols. (CVE-2008-1502)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v759-3wr5-p294

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 431726

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/7/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2008-1502

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/1/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/25/2008

Exploitable With

CANVAS (D2ExploitPack)

Elliot (Moodle <= 1.8.4 RCE)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1502

BID: 28599

cwe: CWE-79