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CVE-2015-2268
filter/urltolink/filter.php in Moodle through 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.9, 2.7.x before 2.7.6, and 2.8.x before 2.8.4 allows remote…
Medium6.8EPSS 2.2%
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- mitre
Description
filter/urltolink/filter.php in Moodle through 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.9, 2.7.x before 2.7.6, and 2.8.x before 2.8.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or partial outage) via a crafted string that is matched against an improper regular expression.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 17% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistmoodle/moodleGHSA-36cm-vrqh-8p98 (opens in a new tab)
References (3)
- https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=307382 (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-38466 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150316 Moodle security issues are now public (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_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-36cm-vrqh-8p98 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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