{"id":"CVE-2019-18210","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"Persistent XSS in /course/modedit.php of Moodle through 3.7.2 allows authenticated users (Teacher and above) to inject JavaScript into the session of another user (e.g., enrolled s","description":"Persistent XSS in /course/modedit.php of Moodle through 3.7.2 allows authenticated users (Teacher and above) to inject JavaScript into the session of another user (e.g., enrolled student or site administrator) via the introeditor[text] parameter. NOTE: the discoverer and vendor disagree on whether Moodle customers have a reasonable expectation that anyone authenticated as a Teacher can be trusted with the ability to add arbitrary JavaScript (this ability is not documented on Moodle's Teacher_role page). Because the vendor has this expectation, they have stated \"this report has been closed as a false positive, and not a bug.\"","publishedAt":"2020-02-11T13:43:36.000Z","updatedAt":"2024-08-05T01:47:14.084Z","severity":null,"assigner":"mitre","products":["n/a n/a"],"affected":[{"vendor":"n/a","product":"n/a","versions":[{"version":"n/a","status":"affected"}]}],"references":["https://gist.github.com/Danbardo/4a6b0fe8cb21ec6d7c54e6ac951bdb0a","https://docs.moodle.org/38/en/Teacher_role"],"weaknesses":[],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-29T19:45:41.458Z","source":{"repository":"CVEProject/cvelistV5","path":"cves/2019/18xxx/CVE-2019-18210.json","commit":"556c9d3a8cd17e218bb8e452ba7cd619a384ff47"},"raw":{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.1","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2019-18210","state":"PUBLISHED","datePublished":"2020-02-11T13:43:36.000Z","dateUpdated":"2024-08-05T01:47:14.084Z","assignerShortName":"mitre","assignerOrgId":"8254265b-2729-46b6-b9e3-3dfca2d5bfca","dateReserved":"2019-10-19T00:00:00.000Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"Persistent XSS in /course/modedit.php of Moodle through 3.7.2 allows authenticated users (Teacher and above) to inject JavaScript into the session of another user (e.g., enrolled student or site administrator) via the introeditor[text] parameter. NOTE: the discoverer and vendor disagree on whether Moodle customers have a reasonable expectation that anyone authenticated as a Teacher can be trusted with the ability to add arbitrary JavaScript (this ability is not documented on Moodle's Teacher_role page). Because the vendor has this expectation, they have stated \"this report has been closed as a false positive, and not a bug.\""}],"affected":[{"vendor":"n/a","product":"n/a","versions":[{"version":"n/a","status":"affected"}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://gist.github.com/Danbardo/4a6b0fe8cb21ec6d7c54e6ac951bdb0a","tags":["x_refsource_MISC"]},{"url":"https://docs.moodle.org/38/en/Teacher_role","tags":["x_refsource_MISC"]}],"problemTypes":[{"descriptions":[{"description":"n/a","lang":"en","type":"text"}]}],"providerMetadata":{"shortName":"mitre","dateUpdated":"2020-02-13T02:29:48.000Z","orgId":"8254265b-2729-46b6-b9e3-3dfca2d5bfca"},"x_legacyV4Record":{"CVE_data_meta":{"ASSIGNER":"cve@mitre.org","ID":"CVE-2019-18210","STATE":"PUBLIC"},"affects":{"vendor":{"vendor_data":[{"product":{"product_data":[{"product_name":"n/a","version":{"version_data":[{"version_value":"n/a"}]}}]},"vendor_name":"n/a"}]}},"data_format":"MITRE","data_type":"CVE","data_version":"4.0","description":{"description_data":[{"lang":"eng","value":"Persistent XSS in /course/modedit.php of Moodle through 3.7.2 allows authenticated users (Teacher and above) to inject JavaScript into the session of another user (e.g., enrolled student or site administrator) via the introeditor[text] parameter. NOTE: the discoverer and vendor disagree on whether Moodle customers have a reasonable expectation that anyone authenticated as a Teacher can be trusted with the ability to add arbitrary JavaScript (this ability is not documented on Moodle's Teacher_role page). Because the vendor has this expectation, they have stated \"this report has been closed as a false positive, and not a bug.\""}]},"problemtype":{"problemtype_data":[{"description":[{"lang":"eng","value":"n/a"}]}]},"references":{"reference_data":[{"name":"https://gist.github.com/Danbardo/4a6b0fe8cb21ec6d7c54e6ac951bdb0a","refsource":"MISC","url":"https://gist.github.com/Danbardo/4a6b0fe8cb21ec6d7c54e6ac951bdb0a"},{"name":"https://docs.moodle.org/38/en/Teacher_role","refsource":"MISC","url":"https://docs.moodle.org/38/en/Teacher_role"}]}}},"adp":[{"title":"CVE Program Container","references":[{"url":"https://gist.github.com/Danbardo/4a6b0fe8cb21ec6d7c54e6ac951bdb0a","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred"]},{"url":"https://docs.moodle.org/38/en/Teacher_role","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred"]}],"providerMetadata":{"shortName":"CVE","orgId":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108","dateUpdated":"2024-08-05T01:47:14.084Z"}}]}}}