CVE-2022-30597 External Control of Assumed-Immutable Web Parameter in moodle

What is CVE-2022-30597?

CVE-2022-30597 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 18 May 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A flaw was found in moodle where the description user field was not hidden when being set as a hidden user field.

Weakness: CWE-472

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-30597?

9 open source packages ship an affected version, including moodle/moodle and moodle. It affects 3 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Moodle Moodle, Redhat Enterprise Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2022-30597?

Upgrade moodle/moodle to a fixed version for your release line: 3.10.11, 3.11.7, 3.9.14 or 4.0.1.

Is CVE-2022-30597 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-30597 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BIT-moodle-2022-30597, GHSA-x6gm-qqwp-76gr, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-30597.