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SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-9fmw-m4qx-6cq8)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 433872

Description

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

 - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the external_format_text function in lib/externallib.php in
 Moodle through 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.11, 2.7.x before 2.7.8, and 2.8.x before 2.8.6 allows remote
 authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML into an external application via a crafted
 string that is visible to web services. (CVE-2015-3178)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9fmw-m4qx-6cq8

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433872

Version: Revision 1.2

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: Low

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-2015-3178

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: 5/19/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3178

BID: 74726

cwe: CWE-79