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CVE-2011-4278

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-07-16 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the tag autocomplete functionality in Moodle 1.9.x before 1.9.11 and 2.0.x before 2.0.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Moodle: 1.9.1, 1.9.2, 1.9.3, 1.9.4, 1.9.5, 1.9.6 (+6)

References

• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fd29b2ad1c20906da00d7e523f39bc8a0358a65b
• http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=170003
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/14/1
• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fd29b2ad1c20906da00d7e523f39bc8a0358a65b
• http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=170003
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/14/1

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