CVE-2022-45149 Cross-Site Request Forgery in Moodle

What is CVE-2022-45149?

CVE-2022-45149 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 23 Nov 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

A vulnerability was found in Moodle which exists due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin in course redirect URL. A user's CSRF token was unnecessarily included in the URL when being redirected to a course they have just restored. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website. This flaw allows an attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.

Weakness: CWE-352

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-45149?

7 open source packages ship an affected version, including moodle/moodle and moodle. It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Moodle Moodle.

How do I fix CVE-2022-45149?

Upgrade moodle/moodle to a fixed version for your release line: 3.11.11, 3.9.18 or 4.0.5.

Is CVE-2022-45149 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-45149 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-2022-45149, GHSA-8v23-w4w5-w83c, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-45149.