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CVE-2012-0798

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-07-17 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The self-enrolment functionality in Moodle 2.1.x before 2.1.4 and 2.2.x before 2.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to obtain the manager role by leveraging the teacher role.

Affected products

• Moodle: 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.2.0

References

• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-29469
• http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=194017
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783532
• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-29469
• http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=194017
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783532

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