SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-vrf6-q7qj-69v5)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 432259

Description

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

- webservice/upload.php in Moodle 2.6.x before 2.6.6 and 2.7.x before 2.7.3 does not ensure that a file
upload is for a private or draft area, which allows remote authenticated users to upload files containing
JavaScript, and consequently conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, by specifying the profile-picture
area. (CVE-2014-7835)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vrf6-q7qj-69v5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 432259

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/8/2025

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: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-7835

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/17/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-7835

BID: 71127

cwe: CWE-79