SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-v9xq-vh72-chr4)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433994

Description

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

- A flaw was found in Moodle 3.4 to 3.4.1, 3.3 to 3.3.4, 3.2 to 3.2.7, 3.1 to 3.1.10 and earlier unsupported
versions. Unauthenticated users can trigger custom messages to admin via paypal enrol script. Paypal IPN
callback script should only send error emails to admin after request origin was verified, otherwise admin
email can be spammed. (CVE-2018-1081)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v9xq-vh72-chr4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433994

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: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1081

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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: 3/26/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1081

BID: 103728

cwe: CWE-79