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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-1136

An issue was discovered in Moodle 3.x. An authenticated user is allowed to add HTML blocks containing scripts to their Dashboard; this is normally not a security issue because a personal dashboard is visible to this user only. Through this security vulnerability, users can move such a block to other pages where they can be viewed by other users.

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CVE-2018-1136
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1 Nov 2026, 04:17 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2018-1136

core-osv · Original source

Published 25 May 2018, 12:29 UTC

An issue was discovered in Moodle 3.x. An authenticated user is allowed to add HTML blocks containing scripts to their Dashboard; this is normally not a security issue because a personal dashboard is visible to this user only. Through this security vulnerability, users can move such a block to other pages where they can be viewed by other users.

osv:CVE-2018-1136
Complete source record
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      "provider": "osv",
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