Medium
Security advisory
In Moodle 3.8, messages required extra sanitizing before updating the conversation overview, to prevent the risk of stored cross-site scripting.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-1691
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:32 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Moodle 3.8, messages required extra sanitizing before updating the conversation overview, to prevent the risk of stored cross-site scripting.
osv:CVE-2020-1691
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:19.733295159Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"published_at": "2022-08-05T16:15:10.68+00:00"
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