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Medium · 4.3 CVE-2016-2151 EUVD-2022-5079GHSA-r3fc-hx6q-g6cq

Moodle allows attackers to discover student e-mail addresses

Published May 22, 2016 · Updated Aug 5, 2024 · Assigned by redhat

Description

user/index.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 grants excessive authorization on the basis of the moodle/course:viewhiddenuserfields capability, which allows remote authenticated users to discover student e-mail addresses by leveraging the teacher role and reading a Participants list.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Packagist moodle/moodle < 2.7.13 2.7.13 GHSA-r3fc-hx6q-g6cq
Packagist moodle/moodle >= 2.8.0, < 2.8.11 2.8.11 GHSA-r3fc-hx6q-g6cq
Packagist moodle/moodle >= 2.9.0, < 2.9.5 2.9.5 GHSA-r3fc-hx6q-g6cq
Packagist moodle/moodle >= 3.0.0, < 3.0.3 3.0.3 GHSA-r3fc-hx6q-g6cq

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