Bug 2142774 (CVE-2022-45151, MSA-22-0031) - CVE-2022-45151 moodle: stored XSS possible in some "social" user profile fields
Summary: CVE-2022-45151 moodle: stored XSS possible in some "social" user profile fields
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2022-45151, MSA-22-0031
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 2144704 2144705 2144706 2144707
Blocks: 2141946 2144719
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-11-15 08:58 UTC by TEJ RATHI
Modified: 2022-12-07 19:32 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: moodle 4.0.5, moodle 3.11.11
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The stored-XSS vulnerability was discovered in Moodle which exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in several "social" user profile fields. An attacker could inject and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
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Last Closed: 2022-12-07 19:32:35 UTC
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Description TEJ RATHI 2022-11-15 08:58:34 UTC 
MSA-22-0031: Stored XSS possible in some "social" user profile fields

The "social" user profile field type performed insufficient escaping on some fields, resulting in a stored XSS risk.

Versions affected: 4.0 to 4.0.4 and 3.11 to 3.11.10
Versions fixed:    4.0.5 and 3.11.11
Comment 2 TEJ RATHI 2022-11-22 03:57:31 UTC 
References:
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=440771
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-76131
Comment 3 TEJ RATHI 2022-11-22 04:00:14 UTC 
Created moodle tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 2144704]
Affects: fedora-35 [bug 2144705]
Affects: fedora-36 [bug 2144706]
Affects: fedora-37 [bug 2144707]
Comment 4 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-12-07 19:32:33 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.
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