CVE-2012-0800

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% 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-200

Description

The form-autocompletion functionality in Moodle 2.0.x before 2.0.7, 2.1.x before 2.1.4, and 2.2.x before 2.2.1 makes it easier for physically proximate attackers to discover passwords by reading the contents of a non-password field, as demonstrated by accessing a create-groups page with Safari on an iPad device.

Affected products

Moodle: 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5 (+6)

References

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6e9989dbd3f261b2e1586ff77b0bf22fc7091485
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=194019
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783532
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6e9989dbd3f261b2e1586ff77b0bf22fc7091485
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=194019
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783532

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