Description
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.
Published: 2016-05-22
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-5079 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-r3fc-hx6q-g6cq Moodle allows attackers to discover student e-mail addresses
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T23:17:50.559Z

Reserved: 2016-01-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-2151

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-05-22T20:59:00.097

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2016-2151

cve-icon Redhat

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Weaknesses