VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-8643

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Published 2017-01-20 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
4.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

In Moodle 2.x and 3.x, non-admin site managers may accidentally edit admins via web services.

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 with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
moodlemoodle{"endIncluding":"2.7.16"}
moodlemoodle2.8.0
moodlemoodle2.8.1
moodlemoodle2.8.2
moodlemoodle2.8.3
moodlemoodle2.8.4
moodlemoodle2.8.5
moodlemoodle2.8.6
moodlemoodle2.8.7
moodlemoodle2.8.8
moodlemoodle2.8.9
moodlemoodle2.8.10
moodlemoodle2.8.11
moodlemoodle2.8.12
moodlemoodle2.9.0
moodlemoodle2.9.1
moodlemoodle2.9.2
moodlemoodle2.9.3
moodlemoodle2.9.4
moodlemoodle2.9.5
moodlemoodle2.9.6
moodlemoodle2.9.7
moodlemoodle2.9.8
moodlemoodle3.0.0
moodlemoodle3.0.1
moodlemoodle3.0.2
moodlemoodle3.0.3
moodlemoodle3.0.4
moodlemoodle3.0.5
moodlemoodle3.0.6
moodlemoodle3.1.0
moodlemoodle3.1.1
moodlemoodle3.1.2

References

CWEs

CWE-284

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

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