🛡️ CVE-2017-7491 — moodle

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-352 OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Moodle Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

In Moodle 2.x and 3.x, a CSRF attack is possible that allows attackers to change the "number of courses displayed in the course overview block" configuration setting.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2017-7491 is classified as CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). A state-changing request is accepted without proof it was intended, so another site can trigger it using the victim's session.

Affected software

CVE-2017-7491 is recorded against 1 package.

  • moodle/moodle (from 2.7 up to 2.7.20)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 May 2022 and last revised on 23 April 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
moodle.org (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-352
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-17
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-04-23
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
moodle/moodle 2.7 2.7.20

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