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Vulnerability details: VCID-fumj-9pun-zfc5
Vulnerability ID VCID-fumj-9pun-zfc5
Aliases CVE-2014-7835
GHSA-vrf6-q7qj-69v5
Summary Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') webservice/upload.php in Moodle 2.6.x before 2.6.6 and 2.7.x before 2.7.3 does not ensure that a file upload is for a private or draft area, which allows remote authenticated users to upload files containing JavaScript, and consequently conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, by specifying the profile-picture area.
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-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
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Reference id Reference type URL
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-47868
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/17/11
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/2f87351d5480f562d6811cdf3bea032612e0325e
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/76ae1f6068f63149acc2d8c362af94067f4a227d
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/ea1fbc00285514242d620ea017e187eb139deedb
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=275161
https://web.archive.org/web/20150914064838/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031215
CVE-2014-7835 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-7835
GHSA-vrf6-q7qj-69v5 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vrf6-q7qj-69v5
No exploits are available.
There are no known vectors.

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Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-02T04:43:07.816277+00:00 GitLab Importer Import https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/packagist/moodle/moodle/CVE-2014-7835.yml 38.6.0