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CVE-2015-5272

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% 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 Forum module in Moodle 2.7.x before 2.7.10 allows remote authenticated users to post to arbitrary groups by leveraging the teacher role, as demonstrated by a post directed to "all participants."

Affected products

• Moodle: 2.7.0, 2.7.1, 2.7.2, 2.7.3, 2.7.4, 2.7.5 (+4)

References

• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-50576
• 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=320288
• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-50576
• 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=320288

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