CVE-2021-21809 (GCVE-0-2021-21809)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-06-23 21:25
Modified
2024-08-03 18:23
Severity ?
8.2 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • OS command injection
Summary
A command execution vulnerability exists in the default legacy spellchecker plugin in Moodle 3.10. A specially crafted series of HTTP requests can lead to command execution. An attacker must have administrator privileges to exploit this vulnerabilities.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Moodle Version: Moodle 3.10
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