CVE-2019-14881 — A vulnerability was found in moodle 3

A vulnerability was found in moodle 3.7 before 3.7.3, where there is blind XSS reflected in some locations where user email is displayed.

01What is this vulnerability?

A vulnerability was found in moodle 3.7 before 3.7.3, where there is blind XSS reflected in some locations where user email is displayed.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
[UNKNOWN]	moodle	3.7.3

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2020-03-18T12:19:40.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T00:26:39.145Z

09References

• bugzilla.redhat.com — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14881
• moodle.org — https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=393584#p1586746