CVE-2012-3396

Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-07-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in cohort/edit_form.php in Moodle 2.0.x before 2.0.10, 2.1.x before 2.1.7, 2.2.x before 2.2.4, and 2.3.x before 2.3.1 allows remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the idnumber field. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2012-2365.

Affected products

Moodle: 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5 (+16)

References

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-34045
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/17/1
http://secunia.com/advisories/49890
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54481
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/76962
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-34045
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/17/1
http://secunia.com/advisories/49890
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54481
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/76962

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