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CVE-2012-4401

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 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: 2012-09-19 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Moodle 2.2.x before 2.2.5 and 2.3.x before 2.3.2 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended capability restrictions and perform certain topic changes by leveraging course-editing capabilities.

Affected products

• Moodle: 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4, 2.3.0 (+1)

References

• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-28207
• http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=211556
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/17/1
• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-28207
• http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=211556
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/17/1

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