CVE-2011-4585

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: 2012-07-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-16

Description

login/change_password.php in Moodle 1.9.x before 1.9.15 does not use https for the change-password form even if the httpslogin option is enabled, which allows remote attackers to obtain credentials by sniffing the network.

Affected products

Moodle: 1.9.1, 1.9.2, 1.9.3, 1.9.4, 1.9.5, 1.9.6 (+8)

References

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=01dd64a8c8aa95f793accea371b2392e662663c5
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=191752
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2421
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=761248
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=01dd64a8c8aa95f793accea371b2392e662663c5
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=191752
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2421
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=761248

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