CVE-2016-2157

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-05-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in mod/assign/adminmanageplugins.php in Moodle through 2.6.11, 2.7.x before 2.7.13, 2.8.x before 2.8.11, 2.9.x before 2.9.5, and 3.0.x before 3.0.3 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that manage Assignment plugins.

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 (+26)

References

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-53031
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/21/1
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035333
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=330179
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-53031
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/21/1
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035333
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=330179

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