CVE-2013-2242

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-07-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

mod/chat/gui_sockets/index.php in Moodle through 2.1.10, 2.2.x before 2.2.11, 2.3.x before 2.3.8, 2.4.x before 2.4.5, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 does not consider the mod/chat:chat capability before authorizing daemon-mode chat, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions via an HTTP session to a chat server.

Affected products

Moodle: 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.1.4, 2.1.5 (+30)

References

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-39628
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=232498
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-39628
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=232498

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