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SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-hxmp-8f47-x9fc)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433973

Description

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

 - The error-message functionality in Moodle 1.9.x before 1.9.13, 2.0.x before 2.0.4, and 2.1.x before 2.1.1
 does not ensure that a continuation link refers to an http or https URL for the local Moodle instance,
 which might allow attackers to trick users into visiting arbitrary web sites via unspecified vectors.
 (CVE-2011-4294)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hxmp-8f47-x9fc

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433973

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: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-4294

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: 7/16/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4294

BID: 78410

cwe: CWE-601