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SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-3gm8-32vv-q8mp)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433804

Description

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

 - The KSES text cleaning filter in lib/weblib.php in Moodle before 1.8.13 and 1.9.x before 1.9.9 does not
 properly handle vbscript URIs, which allows remote authenticated users to conduct cross-site scripting
 (XSS) attacks via HTML input. (CVE-2010-2230)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3gm8-32vv-q8mp

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433804

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

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

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-2230

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: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/17/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-2230

BID: 40944

cwe: CWE-79