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CVE-2016-3734: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

April 20, 2017 (updated April 27, 2017)

A Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in markposts.php in Moodle allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that marks forum posts as read.

References

  • www.securityfocus.com/bid/91281
  • www.securitytracker.com/id/1035902
  • bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1335933
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3734

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 2.7 up to 2.7.13, all versions starting from 2.8 up to 2.8.11, all versions starting from 2.9 up to 2.9.5, all versions starting from 3.0 up to 3.0.3

Fixed versions

  • 2.7.14
  • 2.8.12
  • 2.9.6
  • 3.0.4

Solution

Upgrade to versions 2.7.14, 2.8.12, 2.9.6, 3.0.4 or above.

Impact 8.8 HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Source file

packagist/moodle/moodle/CVE-2016-3734.yml

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