CVE-2009-1171: Moodle

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 6.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The TeX filter in Moodle 1.6 before 1.6.9+, 1.7 before 1.7.7+, 1.8 before 1.8.9, and 1.9 before 1.9.5 allows user-assisted attackers to read arbitrary files via an input command in a "$$" sequence, which causes LaTeX to include the contents of the file.

Affected products

• Moodle Moodle: version 1.6.0 only; version 1.6.1 only; version 1.6.2 only; version 1.6.3 only; version 1.6.4 only; version 1.6.5 only; …

Published 2009-03-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.