CVE-2016-0725

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% 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-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the search_pagination function in course/classes/management_renderer.php in Moodle 2.8.x before 2.8.10, 2.9.x before 2.9.4, and 3.0.x before 3.0.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted search string.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 22, 23
Moodle: 2.8.0, 2.8.1, 2.8.2, 2.8.3, 2.8.4, 2.8.5 (+10)

References

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-52552
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176502.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176436.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/18/1
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034694
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=326206
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-52552
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176502.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176436.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/18/1
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034694
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=326206

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