CVE-2015-2270

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-06-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-17

Description

lib/moodlelib.php in Moodle through 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.9, 2.7.x before 2.7.6, and 2.8.x before 2.8.4, when the theme uses the blocks-regions feature, establishes the course state at an incorrect point in the login-validation process, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive course information via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Moodle: through 2.5.9; 2.5.0, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5.4, 2.5.5 (+22)

References

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-48804
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/16/1
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=307384
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-48804
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/16/1
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=307384

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