What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-5264

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-02-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The lesson module in Moodle through 2.6.11, 2.7.x before 2.7.10, 2.8.x before 2.8.8, and 2.9.x before 2.9.2 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions and enter additional answer attempts by leveraging the student role.

Affected products

• Moodle: through 2.6.11; 2.7.0, 2.7.1, 2.7.2, 2.7.3, 2.7.4, 2.7.5 (+14)

References

• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-50516
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/21/1
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033619
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=320287
• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-50516
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/21/1
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033619
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=320287

Get alerted when CVE-2015-5264 or the next vulnerability affects your stack