VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-2242

medium
Published 2013-07-29 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.0

Description

mod/chat/gui_sockets/index.php in Moodle through 2.1.10, 2.2.x before 2.2.11, 2.3.x before 2.3.8, 2.4.x before 2.4.5, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 does not consider the mod/chat:chat capability before authorizing daemon-mode chat, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions via an HTTP session to a chat server.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
moodlemoodle2.1.0
moodlemoodle2.1.1
moodlemoodle2.1.2
moodlemoodle2.1.3
moodlemoodle2.1.4
moodlemoodle2.1.5
moodlemoodle2.1.6
moodlemoodle2.1.7
moodlemoodle2.1.8
moodlemoodle2.1.9
moodlemoodle2.1.10
moodlemoodle2.2.0
moodlemoodle2.2.1
moodlemoodle2.2.2
moodlemoodle2.2.3
moodlemoodle2.2.4
moodlemoodle2.2.5
moodlemoodle2.2.6
moodlemoodle2.2.7
moodlemoodle2.2.8
moodlemoodle2.2.9
moodlemoodle2.2.10
moodlemoodle2.3.0
moodlemoodle2.3.1
moodlemoodle2.3.2
moodlemoodle2.3.3
moodlemoodle2.3.4
moodlemoodle2.3.5
moodlemoodle2.3.6
moodlemoodle2.3.7
moodlemoodle2.4.0
moodlemoodle2.4.1
moodlemoodle2.4.2
moodlemoodle2.4.3
moodlemoodle2.4.4
moodlemoodle2.5.0

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.