National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-2230
Original release date:06/28/2010
Last revised:09/09/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The KSES text cleaning filter in lib/weblib.php in Moodle before 1.8.13 and 1.9.x before 1.9.9 does not properly handle vbscript URIs, which allows remote authenticated users to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via HTML input.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://cvs.moodle.org/moodle/lib/weblib.php?r1=1.970.2.171&r2=1.970.2.172
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://cvs.moodle.org/moodle/lib/weblib.php?r1=1.812.2.114&r2=1.812.2.115
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=605809
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-1571
Type: Advisory
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-1530
Type: Advisory
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100621 Re: CVE request: moodle 1.9.9/1.8.13 multiple vulnerabilities
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-22042
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 40352
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 40248
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152368
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2010:014
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2010-10321
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2010-10291
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2010-10286
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_1.9.9_release_notes
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_1.8.13_release_notes
Technical Details
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)