SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-grvw-qq2j-r898)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 433852

Description

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

- Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the survey module in Moodle through 2.6.11, 2.7.x
before 2.7.11, 2.8.x before 2.8.9, and 2.9.x before 2.9.3 allow remote authenticated users to inject
arbitrary web script or HTML by leveraging the student role and entering a crafted survey answer.
(CVE-2015-5336)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-grvw-qq2j-r898

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433852

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: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-5336

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: 11/16/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5336

BID: 77606

cwe: CWE-79