SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-mg69-5q59-8jcg)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433734

Description

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

- mod/forum/classes/post_form.php in Moodle through 2.3.11, 2.4.x before 2.4.11, 2.5.x before 2.5.7, 2.6.x
before 2.6.4, and 2.7.x before 2.7.1 does not enforce the moodle/site:accessallgroups capability
requirement before proceeding with a post to all groups, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass
intended access restrictions by leveraging two or more group memberships. (CVE-2014-3553)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mg69-5q59-8jcg

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433734

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 1/27/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-3553

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/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: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/21/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3553

BID: 68772