CVE-2012-6101

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-01-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Multiple open redirect vulnerabilities in Moodle 2.2.x before 2.2.7, 2.3.x before 2.3.4, and 2.4.x before 2.4.1 allow remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via vectors related to (1) backup/backupfilesedit.php, (2) comment/comment_post.php, (3) course/switchrole.php, (4) mod/wiki/filesedit.php, (5) tag/coursetags_add.php, or (6) user/files.php.

Affected products

Moodle: 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4, 2.2.5 (+6)

References

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-35991
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/21/1
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220162
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-35991
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/21/1
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220162

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