CVE-2011-4308 Information disclosure in n/a
Medium 4.0
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2011-4308 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2011-4308 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Moodle Moodle, published on 11 Jul 2012. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-4308 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Moodle Moodle. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2011-4308/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2011-4308/index.md)
Authenticated users can discover other users' names in Moodle, exposing private user data.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2011-4308?
CVE-2011-4308 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Moodle Moodle, published on 11 Jul 2012. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
mod/forum/user.php in Moodle 1.9.x before 1.9.14, 2.0.x before 2.0.5, and 2.1.x before 2.1.2 allows remote authenticated users to discover the names of other users via unspecified vectors.
Weakness: CWE-264
Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-4308?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Moodle Moodle.
How do I fix CVE-2011-4308?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2011-4308 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-4308 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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- CVE-2006-4936 Moodle does not properly validate module instance id
- CVE-2004-2233 Unknown "front page vulnerability with Moodle servers" for Moodle before 1.3.2 has unknown impact and attack vectors.
- CVE-2004-2235 Cross-site scripting in n/a
- CVE-2004-2236 Other in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-8fqh-rfgp-g35q.