Medium
Security advisory
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the search_pagination function in course/classes/management_renderer.php in Moodle 2.8.x before 2.8.10, 2.9.x before 2.9.4, and 3.0.x before 3.0.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted search string.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-0725
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:08 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the search_pagination function in course/classes/management_renderer.php in Moodle 2.8.x before 2.8.10, 2.9.x before 2.9.4, and 3.0.x before 3.0.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted search string.
osv:CVE-2016-0725
Complete source record
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"method": "structured",
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"summary": "Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the search_pagination function in course/classes/management_renderer.php in Moodle 2.8.x before 2.8.10, 2.9.x before 2.9.4, and 3.0.x before 3.0.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted search string.",
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:35.809250201Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=326206"
],
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2016-02-22T05:59:22.527+00:00"
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