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SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-2hw2-h3mf-c2j9)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433921

Description

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

 - Open redirect vulnerability in the clean_param function in lib/moodlelib.php in Moodle through 2.6.11,
 2.7.x before 2.7.9, 2.8.x before 2.8.7, and 2.9.x before 2.9.1 allows remote attackers to redirect users
 to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via vectors involving an HTTP Referer header that has
 a substring match with a local URL. (CVE-2015-3272)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2hw2-h3mf-c2j9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 433921

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: 3.3

Percentile: 50.87

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-3272

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/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: 7/13/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3272

BID: 75711