Moodle Cross Site Scripting and Request Forgery Vulnerabilities


Description   Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Moodle, which could be exploited by attackers or malicious users to disclose sensitive information or manipulate certain data. These issues are caused by input validation errors in the MNET access control interface, blog index page, KSES text cleaning filter and Quiz reports, which could be exploited to gain knowledge of sensitive information or to conduct cross-site request forgery attacks.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
Moodle versions prior to 1.8.13Moodle versions prior to 1.9.9
     
Solution   Upgrade to Moodle version 1.8.13 or 1.9.9 : http://moodle.org/downloads/
     
CVE   CVE-2010-2231
CVE-2010-2230
CVE-2010-2229
CVE-2010-2228
     
References   http://moodle.org/security/
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-22040
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-22631
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-22042
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21688
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious tag with event found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious tag with event found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'object' tag found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'applet' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'applet' tag found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : 'location' javascript object found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' attribute found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : javascript code found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : code allowing cookie access found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'a' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : cookie access attempt using script language found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'embed' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'object' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'form' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'embed' tag found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' tag found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : javascript code found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'div' tag found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : evasion attempt using tag characters encoding in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'link' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'script' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : 'script' tag found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' attribute found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'location' javascript object found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL
3.2.0
     


 
 
 
 
 Risk level 
Moderate 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2010-06-21 

 Target Type 
Client 

 Possible exploit 
Local & Remote