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WEB APPLICATION VULNERABILITIES Standard & Premium

Moodle Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Vulnerability (CVE-2021-20186)

Description

It was found in Moodle before version 3.10.1, 3.9.4, 3.8.7 and 3.5.16 that if the TeX notation filter was enabled, additional sanitizing of TeX content was required to prevent the risk of stored XSS.

Remediation

References

CVE-2021-20186

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CVE-2021-20186 CWE-707 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Tags

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