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CVE-2010-2230

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-2230 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Moodle versions prior to 1.8.13 and 1.9.9. The flaw resides in the KSES text cleaning filter, which fails to properly sanitize vbscript URIs in HTML input. This allows remote authenticated users to inject malicious scripts. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.0, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and requiring authentication, leading to a potential impact on integrity (XSS). There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code or significant community discussion has been identified.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.8.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:1.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:1.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:1.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.23%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0223 is in the 92nd percentile among its peer group of 21,974 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: moodle/moodleFixed in: 1.8.13
composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: moodle/moodleFixed in: 1.9.9

Vendor Advisories (1)

composerGHSA-3gm8-32vv-q8mpmedium

Moodle Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in the KSES text cleaning filter

May 13, 2022

References

cvs.moodle.org / moodle/lib/weblib.php
Patch
cvs.moodle.org / moodle/lib/weblib.php
Patch
docs.moodle.org / en/Moodle_1.8.13_release_notes
docs.moodle.org / en/Moodle_1.9.9_release_notes
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/043285.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/043291.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/043340.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html
moodle.org / mod/forum/discuss.php
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/40248
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/40352
Vendor Advisory
tracker.moodle.org / browse/MDL-22042
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2010/06/21/2
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/1530
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/1571
Vendor Advisory