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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2017-7490 json

Moodle Unauthorized searching of arbitrary blogs by typing full url

published 2017-05-15 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-9x63-m3cc-qf3g , EUVD-2022-3462

cvss
5.3
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 64%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In Moodle 2.x and 3.x, searching of arbitrary blogs is possible because a capability check is missing.

Patch / fix

  • packagist moodle/moodle 2.7.20, 3.0.10, 3.1.6, 3.2.3

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-7490 updated

moodle: Multiple security vulnerabilities

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.05% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 64% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist moodle/moodle
>=3.2, <3.2.3
>=3.1, <3.1.6
>=3.0, <3.0.10
>=2.7, <2.7.20
3.2.3
3.1.6
3.0.10
2.7.20

Affected products

  • n/a Moodle 2.x and 3.x

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-668 Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

References

Sources

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