Medium
Security advisory
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Moodle CMS on or before 3.1.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the s_additionalhtmlhead, s_additionalhtmltopofbody, and s_additionalhtmlfooter parameters.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-9188
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:43 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Moodle CMS on or before 3.1.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the s_additionalhtmlhead, s_additionalhtmltopofbody, and s_additionalhtmlfooter parameters.
osv:CVE-2016-9188
Complete source record
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"published_at": "2016-11-04T10:59:08.647+00:00"
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