Moodle Remote SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

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Technical Description

Two vulnerabilities were identified in Moodle, which could be exploited by malicious users to perform SQL injection or cross site scripting attacks.

The first issue is due to an input validation error in the "jumpto.php" script when processing a specially crafted "jump" parameter, which may be exploited by attackers to cause arbitrary scripting code to be executed by the user's browser .

The second vulnerability is due to input validation errors in the "category.php", "info.php" and "plot.php" scripts when processing a specially crafted "id" or "user" parameter, which may be exploited by remote users to conduct SQL injection attacks.

Affected Products

Moodle version 1.5.2 and prior

Solution

Upgrade to Moodle version 1.6dev :
http://download.moodle.org

References

http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2005/2387
http://rgod.altervista.org/moodle16dev.html