Medium
Security advisory
A flaw was found in moodle before versions 3.5.1, 3.4.4, 3.3.7, 3.1.13. It was possible for the core_course_get_categories web service to return hidden categories, which should be omitted when fetching course categories.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-10890
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:04 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw was found in moodle before versions 3.5.1, 3.4.4, 3.3.7, 3.1.13. It was possible for the core_course_get_categories web service to return hidden categories, which should be omitted when fetching course categories.
osv:CVE-2018-10890
Complete source record
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