SCA: security update for apereo/phpcas, moodle/moodle (GHSA-45ch-hxgr-vx8j)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 433933

Description

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

- Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the phpCAS client library before 1.1.0, as used in Moodle
1.8.x before 1.8.12 and 1.9.x before 1.9.8, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML
via a crafted URL, which is not properly handled in an error message. (CVE-2010-1618)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-45ch-hxgr-vx8j

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433933

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: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-1618

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/1/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-1618

BID: 39150

cwe: CWE-79