CVE-2011-4279

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% 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-200

Description

Moodle 2.0.x before 2.0.2 does not use the forceloginforprofiles setting for course-profiles access control, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information via vectors involving use of a search engine, as demonstrated by the search functionality of Google, Yahoo!, Wrensoft Zoom, MSN, Yandex, and AltaVista.

Affected products

Moodle: 2.0.0, 2.0.1

References

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=81b58cc227cf96a1cd2e002cc210b7b3e376fd17
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=170004
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/14/1
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=81b58cc227cf96a1cd2e002cc210b7b3e376fd17
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=170004
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/14/1

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