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CVE-2011-4285

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% 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-264

Description

The default configuration of Moodle 2.0.x before 2.0.2 has an incorrect setting of the moodle/course:delete capability, which allows remote authenticated users to delete arbitrary courses by leveraging the teacher role.

Affected products

• Moodle: 2.0.0, 2.0.1

References

• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5cfe8aecb8b78e343ded38ba9e7a0a859887d21c
• http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=170011
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/14/1
• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5cfe8aecb8b78e343ded38ba9e7a0a859887d21c
• http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=170011
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/14/1

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