What is CVE-2017-5945?

CVE-2017-5945 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Poodll Moodle-Filter, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-02-10.

How severe is CVE-2017-5945?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

XSS in Poodll Moodle-Filter

CVE-2017-5945

An issue was discovered in the PoodLL Filter plugin through 3.0.20 for Moodle. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data in the "poodll_audio_url" HTTP GET parameter passed to the "filter_poodll_moodle32_2016112802/poodll/mp3recorderskins/brazil/index.php" URL. An attacker could execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a browser in the context of the vulnerable website.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.009 (55.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Poodll Moodle-filter_poodll
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-5945?: CVE-2017-5945 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Poodll Moodle-Filter, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-02-10.
How severe is CVE-2017-5945?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.