SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-mx5g-3vxh-rgm8)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 432449

Description

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

- Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Spike PHPCoverage (aka spikephpcoverage) library, as used
in Moodle 2.0.x before 2.0.2 and other products, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or
HTML via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2011-4280)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mx5g-3vxh-rgm8

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 432449

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: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-4280

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/16/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4280

BID: 73649

cwe: CWE-79