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CVE-2014-7834

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-11-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

mod/forum/externallib.php in Moodle 2.6.x before 2.6.6 and 2.7.x before 2.7.3 does not verify group permissions, which allows remote authenticated users to access a forum via the forum_get_discussions web service.

Affected products

• Moodle: through 2.4.11; 2.5.0, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5.4, 2.5.5 (+12)

References

• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-45303
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/17/11
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031215
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=275159
• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-45303
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/17/11
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031215
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=275159

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