CVE-2023-5549: low-severity vulnerability in moodle
Moodle: insufficient capability checks when updating the parent of a course category
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8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 3.3epss 0.6%
Insufficient web service capability checks made it possible to move categories a user had permission to manage, to a parent category they did not have the capability to manage.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Affected products
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