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Vulnerability details: VCID-v7zm-cw8w-6yf8
Vulnerability ID VCID-v7zm-cw8w-6yf8
Aliases CVE-2014-7834
GHSA-557f-2hv4-7jjm
Summary Moodle does not verify group permissions mod/forum/externallib.php in Moodle 2.6.x before 2.6.6 and 2.7.x before 2.7.3 does not verify group permissions, which allows remote authenticated users to access a forum via the forum_get_discussions web service.
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
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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-45303
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/17/11
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/3aa9d93c7a78d14fa30e2afbfd8fa7e09bc9cb41
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/40afeb4044c9718bf175c347f0f9099a037ce9f0
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/79eda0e9a0d15ba1d87187ec712f96abd62748c1
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=275159
https://web.archive.org/web/20150914064838/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031215
CVE-2014-7834 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-7834
GHSA-557f-2hv4-7jjm https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-557f-2hv4-7jjm
No exploits are available.
There are no known vectors.

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Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-02T04:42:38.501826+00:00 GitLab Importer Import https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/packagist/moodle/moodle/CVE-2014-7834.yml 38.6.0