CVE-2011-4278

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-4278 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability within the tag autocomplete functionality of Moodle versions 1.9.x before 1.9.11 and 2.0.x before 2.0.2. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. With a CVSS score of 4.3, it is a medium severity issue, requiring medium attack complexity and leading to partial integrity impact, but no confidentiality or availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:1.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.9.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:1.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:1.9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.9.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:1.9.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.9.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:1.9.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.83%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0183 is in the 57th percentile among its peer group of 19,956 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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: 2.0.2
composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: moodle/moodleFixed in: 1.9.11