CVE-2010-1619: Moodle vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

May 13, 2022 (updated October 31, 2025)

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the fix_non_standard_entities function in the KSES HTML text cleaning library (weblib.php), as used in Moodle 1.8.x before 1.8.12 and 1.9.x before 1.9.8, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted HTML entities.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-hhxf-w8hj-43w6
github.com/moodle/moodle
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-1619

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