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medium 4.9

CVE-2014-3553 json

Moodle does not enforce the moodle/site:accessallgroups capability requirement

published 2014-07-29 12 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-mg69-5q59-8jcg , EUVD-2022-4560

cvss
4.9
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 63%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

mod/forum/classes/post_form.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 does not enforce the moodle/site:accessallgroups capability requirement before proceeding with a post to all groups, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging two or more group memberships.

Patch / fix

  • packagist moodle/moodle 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-2014-3553 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

Exploit prediction

1.02% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 63% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.9 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Affected packages

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

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

Sources

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