CVE-2023-23921 (GCVE-0-2023-23921)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-02-17 00:00
Modified
2024-08-02 10:42
Severity ?
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Summary
The vulnerability was found Moodle which exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in some returnurl parameters. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website. This flaw allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
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Version: 4.1.0   ≤
Version: 4.0.0   ≤
Version: 3.11.0   ≤
Version: 0   ≤
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