Vigil@nce - Moodle: Cross Site Request Forgery via Login Form
January 2019 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/offer/Computer-vulnerability-database-and-alert
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Request Forgery via Login
Form of Moodle, in order to force the victim to perform operations.
– Impacted products: Fedora.
– Severity: 2/4.
– Consequences: user access/rights.
– Provenance: internet client.
– Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
– Creation date: 30/11/2018.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Moodle product offers a web service.
However, the origin of queries is not checked. They can for
example originate from an image included in an HTML document.
An attacker can therefore trigger a Cross Site Request Forgery via
Login Form of Moodle, in order to force the victim to perform
operations.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Moodle-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery-via-Login-Form-27920