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Moodle Authenticated Spelling Binary Remote Code Execution

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 13, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 17, 2023

Package

composer moodle/moodle (Composer)

Affected versions

<= 2.5.2

Patched versions

2.5.3

Description

Moodle through 2.5.2 allows remote authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary programs by configuring the aspell pathname and then triggering a spell-check operation within the TinyMCE editor.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 1, 2013
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2022
Reviewed Aug 17, 2023
Last updated Aug 17, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(88th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2013-3630

GHSA ID

GHSA-wxqg-fg7v-mmc6

Source code

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