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SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-7ghm-fp7p-qvjq)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 446871

Description

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

 - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Moodle CMS on or before 3.1.2 allow remote attackers to
 inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the s_additionalhtmlhead, s_additionalhtmltopofbody, and
 s_additionalhtmlfooter parameters. (CVE-2016-9188)

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7ghm-fp7p-qvjq

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 446871

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/31/2026

Updated: 8/31/2026

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-2016-9188

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: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/4/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9188

BID: 94189

cwe: CWE-79