Moodle Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls Vulnerability (CVE-2011-4297)

Description

comment/lib.php in Moodle 2.0.x before 2.0.4 and 2.1.x before 2.1.1 does not properly restrict comment capabilities, which allows remote attackers to post a comment by leveraging the guest role and operating on a front-page activity.

Remediation

References

CVE-2011-4297

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CVE-2011-4297 CWE-264