CVE-2009-4299

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-12-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

mod/glossary/showentry.php in the Glossary module for Moodle 1.8 before 1.8.11 and 1.9 before 1.9.7 does not properly perform access control, which allows attackers to read unauthorized Glossary entries via unknown vectors.

Affected products

Moodle: 1.8.1, 1.8.2, 1.8.3, 1.8.4, 1.8.5, 1.8.7 (+9)

References

http://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_1.8.11_release_notes
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_1.9.7_release_notes
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=139103
http://secunia.com/advisories/37614
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37244
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3455
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00704.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00730.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00751.html
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_1.8.11_release_notes
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_1.9.7_release_notes
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=139103

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