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CVE-2013-4940
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in io.swf in the IO Utility component in Yahoo! YUI 3.10.2, as used in Moodle through 2.1.10,…
Medium4.3EPSS 1.5%
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- mitre
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in io.swf in the IO Utility component in Yahoo! YUI 3.10.2, as used in Moodle through 2.1.10, 2.2.x before 2.2.11, 2.3.x before 2.3.8, 2.4.x before 2.4.5, 2.5.x before 2.5.1, and other products, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted string in a URL. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2013-4939 regression.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 26% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistmoodle/moodleGHSA-x5hj-47vv-53p8 (opens in a new tab)
- npmyuiGHSA-x5hj-47vv-53p8 (opens in a new tab)
References (3)
- https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=232496 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-39678 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://yuilibrary.com/support/20130515-vulnerability/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-x5hj-47vv-53p8 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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