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medium 4.0

CVE-2012-2356 json

Moodle Authentication Bypass in Question-Bank

published 2012-07-21 14 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also GHSA-3rqj-jchw-9cc7 , EUVD-2022-2237

cvss
4.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.4%
EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 72%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The question-bank functionality in Moodle 2.1.x before 2.1.6 and 2.2.x before 2.2.3 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended capability requirements and save questions via a save_question action.

Patch / fix

  • packagist moodle/moodle 2.1.6, 2.2.3

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2012-2356 updated cvss 4.3

moodle: Upstream 2.2.3, 2.1.6, 2.0.9 and 1.9.18 fixes

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 72% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist moodle/moodle
>=2.1, <2.1.6
>=2.2, <2.2.3
2.1.6
2.2.3

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
  • CWE-288 Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.