CVE-2015-5332

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v3.0)
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: 2016-02-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Atto in Moodle 2.8.x before 2.8.9 and 2.9.x before 2.9.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by leveraging the guest role and entering drafts with the editor-autosave feature.

Affected products

Moodle: 2.8.0, 2.8.1, 2.8.2, 2.8.3, 2.8.4, 2.8.5 (+6)

References

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-51000
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=323229
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-51000
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=323229

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