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CVE-2023-5545
Moodle: auto-populated h5p author name causes a potential information leak
Low3.3EPSS 0.58%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- fedora
Description
H5P metadata automatically populated the author with the user's username, which could be sensitive information.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| fedoraCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Low3.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.58% · top 52% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.3.
Weakness
- CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-200 and its CVEs
- Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
- CWE-668 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-668 and its CVEs
Affected products
moodle
- affected 4.2.0 – < 4.2.3
- affected 4.1.0 – < 4.1.6
- affected 4.0.0 – < 4.0.11
- affected 3.11.0 – < 3.11.17
- affected < 3.9.24
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistmoodle/moodleGHSA-26fg-v32r-h663 (opens in a new tab)
References (3)
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-78820 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- RHBZ#2243444 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=451586 (opens in a new tab)x_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-26fg-v32r-h663 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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