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Fencer Intel
medium 6.8

CVE-2015-2268 json

Moodle allows attackers to cause a denial of service

published 2015-06-01 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-36cm-vrqh-8p98 , EUVD-2022-2120

cvss
6.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.2%
EPSS 2.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 82%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

filter/urltolink/filter.php in Moodle through 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.9, 2.7.x before 2.7.6, and 2.8.x before 2.8.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or partial outage) via a crafted string that is matched against an improper regular expression.

Patch / fix

  • packagist moodle/moodle 2.6.9, 2.7.6, 2.8.4

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-2015-2268 updated cvss 5.8

multiple flaws in moodle

  • 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

2.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist moodle/moodle
<2.6.9
>=2.7.0, <2.7.6
>=2.8.0, <2.8.4
2.6.9
2.7.6
2.8.4

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

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.