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SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-fm6m-fg23-67jq)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 414580

Description

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

 - In certain Moodle products after creating a course, it is possible to add in a arbitrary "Topic" a
 resource, in this case a "Database" with the type "Text" where its values "Field name" and "Field
 description" are vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting Stored(XSS). This affects Moodle 3.11 and Moodle
 3.10.4 and Moodle 3.9.7. (CVE-2021-36568)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fm6m-fg23-67jq

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 414580

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

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: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-36568

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/13/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-36568

cwe: CWE-79