CVE-2024-33997 (GCVE-0-2024-33997)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-31 19:38 – Updated: 2024-11-21 15:01
VLAI
Title
moodle: stored XSS risk when editing another user's equation in equation editor
Summary
Additional sanitizing was required when opening the equation editor to prevent a stored XSS risk when editing another user's equation.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-06-03 16:36 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting')
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Affected: 4.0 , ≤ 4.3.3 (semver)
Affected: 4.2 , ≤ 4.2.6 (semver)
Affected: 4.1 , ≤ 4.1.9 (semver)
Date Public
2024-05-20 09:00
Credits
Aleksey Solovev
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