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Vulnerability details: VCID-9z66-z9af-17f7
Vulnerability ID VCID-9z66-z9af-17f7
Aliases CVE-2015-0214
GHSA-4jm2-c9jr-6prf
Summary Moodle allows attackers to bypass a messaging-disabled setting message/externallib.php in Moodle through 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.7, 2.7.x before 2.7.4, and 2.8.x before 2.8.2 allows remote authenticated users to bypass a messaging-disabled setting via a web-services request, as demonstrated by a people-search request.
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-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
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-48329
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/19/1
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/436bbf8975f0daef329c6483ec595dbf9b39ee56
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/5770e5147838aa06a3ecdff6fc3aebbbd17fff90
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/c4250ef4f23776ff4862d2860b6be2cf7b2d85f6
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commits/v2.6.7#:~:text=MDL%2D48106%20mod_glossary%3A%20Add%20missing%20sesskey%20checks
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=278614
CVE-2015-0214 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-0214
GHSA-4jm2-c9jr-6prf https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4jm2-c9jr-6prf
No exploits are available.
There are no known vectors.

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Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-02T04:42:34.634427+00:00 GitLab Importer Import https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/packagist/moodle/moodle/CVE-2015-0214.yml 38.6.0