CVE-2016-3734

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-04-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in markposts.php in Moodle 3.0 through 3.0.3, 2.9 through 2.9.5, 2.8 through 2.8.11, 2.7 through 2.7.13 and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that marks forum posts as read.

Affected products

Moodle: 2.7.0, 2.7.0-beta, 2.7.0-rc1, 2.7.0-rc2, 2.7.1, 2.7.2 (+38)

References

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-53755
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/17/4
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91281
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035902
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1335933
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-53755
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/17/4
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91281
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035902
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1335933

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