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SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-mj85-3hqq-r6r9)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433870

Description

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

 - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the advanced-search feature in mod_data in Moodle through
 2.6.11, 2.7.x before 2.7.13, 2.8.x before 2.8.11, 2.9.x before 2.9.5, and 3.0.x before 3.0.3 allows remote
 attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted field in a URL, as demonstrated by a search
 form field. (CVE-2016-2153)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mj85-3hqq-r6r9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433870

Version: Revision 1.3

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: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-2153

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/14/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2153

BID: 84975

cwe: CWE-79