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SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-hhxf-w8hj-43w6)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 437063

Description

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

 - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the fix_non_standard_entities function in the KSES HTML text
 cleaning library (weblib.php), as used in Moodle 1.8.x before 1.8.12 and 1.9.x before 1.9.8, allows remote
 attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted HTML entities. (CVE-2010-1619)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hhxf-w8hj-43w6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 437063

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/27/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.69

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

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-2010-1619

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Threat Score: 1.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/1/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-1619

BID: 39150

cwe: CWE-79