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CVE-2014-7838 json

Moodle has multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Forum module

published 11y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-43r4-vm25-qm78 , EUVD-2022-2285

cvss
6.8
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

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Forum module in Moodle through 2.4.11, 2.5.x before 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.6, and 2.7.x before 2.7.3 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that set a tracking preference within (1) mod/forum/deprecatedlib.php, (2) mod/forum/forum.js, (3) mod/forum/index.php, or (4) mod/forum/lib.php.

Patch / fix

  • packagist moodle/moodle 2.5.9, 2.6.6, 2.7.3

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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-2014-7838 updated cvss 4.3

moodle: security issues fixed in versions 2.7.3, 2.6.6 and 2.5.9

  • 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

1.01% 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 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist moodle/moodle
<2.5.9
>=2.6.0, <2.6.6
>=2.7.0, <2.7.3
2.5.9
2.6.6
2.7.3

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery

References

Sources

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