CVE-2010-2230

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-06-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

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.

Affected products

Moodle: through 1.8.12; 1.1.1, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.3.2 (+46)

References

http://cvs.moodle.org/moodle/lib/weblib.php?r1=1.812.2.114&r2=1.812.2.115
http://cvs.moodle.org/moodle/lib/weblib.php?r1=1.970.2.171&r2=1.970.2.172
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_1.8.13_release_notes
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_1.9.9_release_notes
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/043285.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/043291.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/043340.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152368
http://secunia.com/advisories/40248
http://secunia.com/advisories/40352
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-22042

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