CVE-2014-0216

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-05-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The My Home implementation in the block_html_pluginfile function in blocks/html/lib.php in Moodle through 2.3.11, 2.4.x before 2.4.10, 2.5.x before 2.5.6, and 2.6.x before 2.6.3 does not properly restrict file access, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by visiting an HTML block.

Affected products

Moodle: through 2.3.11; 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5 (+57)

References

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-43877
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/19/1
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=260364
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-43877
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/19/1
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=260364

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