CVE-2013-4940

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% 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-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in io.swf in the IO Utility component in Yahoo! YUI 3.10.2, as used 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, 2.5.x before 2.5.1, and other products, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted string in a URL. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2013-4939 regression.

Affected products

Moodle: 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.1.4, 2.1.5 (+30)
yahoo Yui: 3.0.0, 3.1.0, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.2.0, 3.3.0 (+16)

References

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-39678
http://yuilibrary.com/support/20130515-vulnerability/
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=232496
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-39678
http://yuilibrary.com/support/20130515-vulnerability/
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=232496

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