CVE-2011-4589

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% 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-264

Description

backup/moodle2/restore_stepslib.php in Moodle 2.0.x before 2.0.6 and 2.1.x before 2.1.3 does not check for the moodle/course:changeidnumber privilege during handling of course ID numbers, which allows remote authenticated users to overwrite ID numbers via a restore action.

Affected products

Moodle: 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5 (+3)

References

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-29591
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=191758
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=761248
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-29591
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=191758
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=761248

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