Moodle Ability to delete glossary entries that belong to another glossary

published 2019-07-31 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-2mg9-hv69-897x , EUVD-2022-2013

cvss: 4.0; version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.9%; EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 58%
public exploits: 0; none known

A flaw was found in moodle before versions 3.7.1, 3.6.5, 3.5.7. Users with permission to delete entries from a glossary were able to delete entries from other glossaries they did not have direct access to.

Patch / fix

fixed in 2 links 1

packagist moodle/moodle 3.5.7, 3.6.5, 3.7.1
moodle moodle 3.5.7, 3.6.5, 3.7.1

moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=388568#p1566330 advisory

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-2019-10187 updated 2025-11-21 cvss 4.0

moodle: Ability to delete glossary entries that belong to another glossary

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

0.86% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 58% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.0	4.0	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD	3.1	4.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD	2.0	4.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub	3.1	4.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
packagist	moodle/moodle	>=3.7, <3.7.1 >=3.6, <3.6.5 >=3.5, <3.5.7	3.7.1 3.6.5 3.5.7

Affected products

The Moodle Project moodle

Classification

Weakness

CWE-284 Improper Access Control
CWE-862 Missing Authorization

References

moodle.org /mod/forum/discuss.php?d=388568#p1566330
web, patch, vendor-advisory
securityfocus.com /bid/109174
vdb-entry, web, third-party-advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com /show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10187
web, issue-tracking, third-party-advisory
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2019-10187
advisory
github.com /moodle/moodle
package

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary