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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.6

CVE-2023-30944 json

Moodle: minor sql injection risk in external wiki method for listing pages

published 2023-05-02 3 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also BIT-moodle-2023-30944 , EUVD-2023-1494 , GHSA-7mmc-22g7-3xq2

cvss
5.6
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 66%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The vulnerability was found Moodle which exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in external Wiki method for listing pages. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request to the affected application and execute limited SQL commands within the application database.

Patch / fix

  • packagist moodle/moodle 4.2.0-rc2
  • bitnami moodle 3.9.21, 3.11.14, 4.0.8, 4.1.3
  • moodle moodle 3.9.21, 3.11.14, 4.0.8, 4.1.3

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-2023-30944 updated cvss 5.6

moodle: minor SQL injection risk in external Wiki method for listing pages

  • 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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

1.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
GitHub 3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD 3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
OSV 3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist moodle/moodle
<4.2.0-rc2
4.2.0-rc2
bitnami moodle
>=3.9.0, <3.9.21
>=3.11.0, <3.11.14
>=4.0.0, <4.0.8
>=4.1.0, <4.1.3
3.9.21
3.11.14
4.0.8
4.1.3

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-89 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command

References

Sources

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