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Vulnerability details: VCID-ujja-hfkh-wkez
Vulnerability ID VCID-ujja-hfkh-wkez
Aliases CVE-2016-2151
GHSA-r3fc-hx6q-g6cq
Summary Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor user/index.php in Moodle through 2.6.11, 2.7.x before 2.7.13, 2.8.x before 2.8.11, 2.9.x before 2.9.5, and 3.0.x before 3.0.3 grants excessive authorization on the basis of the moodle/course:viewhiddenuserfields capability, which allows remote authenticated users to discover student e-mail addresses by leveraging the teacher role and reading a Participants list.
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-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
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-52433
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/089ab60017cd3207990658fbd37f7f31948539fa
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/094fddd00f2e8e832e21e80f417c7b88b33a1f27
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/85380c6b616e82e31115fbb585d37f0e15f8b0b2
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/8e24a54e526c149469bd77c910876c4489e87841
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/a0034bb01773e36dffed2a665646f9cc31d68d5b
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=330173
https://web.archive.org/web/20160424224349/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035333
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/21/1
CVE-2016-2151 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2151
GHSA-r3fc-hx6q-g6cq https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r3fc-hx6q-g6cq
No exploits are available.
There are no known vectors.

No EPSS data available for this vulnerability.

Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-02T04:42:31.847960+00:00 GitLab Importer Import https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/packagist/moodle/moodle/CVE-2016-2151.yml 38.6.0