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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-15110

In Moodle 3.x, students can find out email addresses of other students in the same course. Using search on the Participants page, students could search email addresses of all participants regardless of email visibility. This allows enumerating and guessing emails of other students.

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1 Nov 2026, 07:09 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2017-15110

core-osv · Original source

Published 20 Nov 2017, 14:29 UTC

In Moodle 3.x, students can find out email addresses of other students in the same course. Using search on the Participants page, students could search email addresses of all participants regardless of email visibility. This allows enumerating and guessing emails of other students.

osv:CVE-2017-15110
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-15110",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-15110",
    "summary": "In Moodle 3.x, students can find out email addresses of other students in the same course. Using search on the Participants page, students could search email addresses of all participants regardless of email visibility. This allows enumerating and guessing emails of other students.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-15110",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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          }
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:49.461858607Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=361784"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
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        "value": "CVE-2017-15110",
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    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 436995,
  "published_at": "2017-11-20T14:29:00.247+00:00"
}