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In Moodle 2.x and 3.x, searching of arbitrary blogs is possible because a capability check is missing.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-7490
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- 1 Nov 2026, 06:26 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Moodle 2.x and 3.x, searching of arbitrary blogs is possible because a capability check is missing.
osv:CVE-2017-7490
Complete source record
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