CVE-2012-3391 in Moodle

Summary

mod/forum/rsslib.php in Moodle 2.1.x before 2.1.7 and 2.2.x before 2.2.4 does not properly implement the requirement for posting before reading a Q&A forum, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging the student role and reading the RSS feed for a forum.

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• Reservation: 06/14/2012
• Disclosure: 07/23/2012
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1: VDB-61392
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-264 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 4.3
• EPSS: 0.00223
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-3391
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3391
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2012-3391/