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Vulnerability details: VCID-8q4n-d565-kfbn
Vulnerability ID VCID-8q4n-d565-kfbn
Aliases CVE-2014-7838
GHSA-43r4-vm25-qm78
Summary Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Forum module in Moodle through 2.4.11, 2.5.x before 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.6, and 2.7.x before 2.7.3 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that set a tracking preference within (1) mod/forum/deprecatedlib.php, (2) mod/forum/forum.js, (3) mod/forum/index.php, or (4) mod/forum/lib.php.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
There are no known severity scores.
Reference id Reference type URL
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-48019
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/17/11
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/545eb1bcfdbfc352bf6c31edf440485ba6d5af42
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/7a311adbba9471edb5a49e4c4b8c356c87f0e44b
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/bef4a5e01739f2b239c0910b9e1aa2841b979f7d
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/c812956efda7d10dfdce5ae19c0ec8879de38a31
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=275164
https://web.archive.org/web/20150914064838/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031215
CVE-2014-7838 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-7838
GHSA-43r4-vm25-qm78 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-43r4-vm25-qm78
No exploits are available.
There are no known vectors.

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Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-02T04:42:57.055629+00:00 GitLab Importer Import https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/packagist/moodle/moodle/CVE-2014-7838.yml 38.6.0