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Fencer Intel
low 3.5

CVE-2014-3544 json

Moodle cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability

published 2014-07-29 12 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-c9jp-244j-vh78 , EUVD-2022-3549

cvss
3.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.7%
EPSS 4.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in user/profile.php in Moodle through 2.3.11, 2.4.x before 2.4.11, 2.5.x before 2.5.7, 2.6.x before 2.6.4, and 2.7.x before 2.7.1 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Skype ID profile field.

Patch / fix

  • packagist moodle/moodle 2.4.11, 2.5.7, 2.6.4, 2.7.1

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-2014-3544 updated cvss 6.8

moodle: security issues fixed in the upstream 2.7.1, 2.6.4, 2.5.7, and 2.4.11 releases

  • 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

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-34169)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

4.67% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-34169 Moodle 2.7 - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting webapps, 2014-07-27
  • osandamalith.wordpress.com http://osandamalith.wordpress.com/2014/07/25/moodle-2-7-persistent-xss/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • packetstormsecurity.com http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/127624/Moodle-2.7-Cross-Site-Scripting.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist moodle/moodle
<2.4.11
>=2.5.0, <2.5.7
>=2.6.0, <2.6.4
>=2.7.0, <2.7.1
2.4.11
2.5.7
2.6.4
2.7.1

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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