CVE-2010-2230
EPSS 0.40%Moodle Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in the KSES text cleaning filter
Published: 5/13/2022Modified: 5/27/2026
Description
The KSES text cleaning filter in lib/weblib.php in Moodle before 1.8.13 and 1.9.x before 1.9.9 does not properly handle vbscript URIs, which allows remote authenticated users to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via HTML input.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/wordpressfrom 0, < 3.0.4+dfsg-1
- Packagist/moodle/moodlefrom 0, < 1.8.13
References (20)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-2230
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-2230
- PATCHhttps://github.com/moodle/moodle
- WEBhttp://cvs.moodle.org/moodle/lib/weblib.php?r1=1.812.2.114&r2=1.812.2.115
- WEBhttp://cvs.moodle.org/moodle/lib/weblib.php?r1=1.970.2.171&r2=1.970.2.172
- WEBhttp://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_1.8.13_release_notes
- WEBhttp://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_1.9.9_release_notes
- WEBhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/043285.html
- WEBhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/043291.html
- WEBhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/043340.html
- WEBhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html
- WEBhttp://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152368
- WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=605809
- WEBhttps://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/704c5dfed4f4531b6d74d19cfad573984e74885e
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20100621005117/http://secunia.com/advisories/40248
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20100711044720/http://secunia.com/advisories/40352
- WEBhttp://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-22042
- WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/06/21/2
- WEBhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1530
- WEBhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1571