Vulnerability CVE-2021-27131


Published: 2023-05-16

Description:
Moodle 3.10.1 is vulnerable to persistent/stored cross-site scripting (XSS) due to the improper input sanitization on the "Additional HTML Section" via "Header and Footer" parameter in /admin/settings.php. This vulnerability is leading an attacker to steal admin and all user account cookies by storing the malicious XSS payload in Header and Footer.

 References:
https://github.com/p4nk4jv/CVEs-Assigned/blob/master/Moodle-3.10.1-CVE-2021-27131.md
https://github.com/moodle/moodle

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