CVE-2015-5331

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% 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-254

Description

Moodle 2.9.x before 2.9.3 does not properly check the contact list before authorizing message transmission, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions and conduct spam attacks via the messaging API.

Affected products

Moodle: 2.9.0, 2.9.1, 2.9.2

References

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-50426
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=323228
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-50426
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=323228

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