CVE-2015-5272
medium
CVSS v3
4.3
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
Description
The Forum module in Moodle 2.7.x before 2.7.10 allows remote authenticated users to post to arbitrary groups by leveraging the teacher role, as demonstrated by a post directed to "all participants."
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
53%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-50576
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/21/1
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033619
- https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=320288
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-50576
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/21/1
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033619
- https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=320288
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.