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CVE-2015-2272

• 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: 2015-06-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

login/token.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 allows remote authenticated users to bypass a forced-password-change requirement by creating a web-services token.

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-48691
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/16/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73166
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=307386
• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-48691
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/16/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73166
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=307386

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