Medium
Moodle: xss in forum post templates due to insufficient escaping
A flaw was found in Moodle. Insufficient output escaping in templates used to display forum posts enables a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. An attacker can inject malicious content into a forum post, which then executes arbitrary script code in the browser of another user viewing the affected post.
Announced Source revision 1
Original source ↗CVE-2026-102581
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-102581
Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
[
{
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "5.2.0",
"lessThan": "5.2.2",
"versionType": "semver"
},
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "5.1.0",
"lessThan": "5.1.6",
"versionType": "semver"
},
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "5.0.0",
"lessThan": "5.0.9",
"versionType": "semver"
},
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "0",
"lessThan": "4.5.13",
"versionType": "semver"
}
],
"packageName": "moodle",
"collectionURL": "https://git.moodle.org",
"defaultStatus": "unaffected"
}
]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2026-102581
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- #4404 · Revision 1
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