CVE-2022-2986 — Enabling and disabling installed H5P libraries did not include the necessary tok

Enabling and disabling installed H5P libraries did not include the necessary token to prevent a CSRF risk.

01What is this vulnerability?

Enabling and disabling installed H5P libraries did not include the necessary token to prevent a CSRF risk.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / moodle	moodle 4.0.3 and moodle 3.11.9

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: 2022-10-06T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-03T00:52:59.888Z

09References

• bugzilla.redhat.com — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2121360
• git.moodle.org — http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-75326