CVE-2009-4304: Moodle

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Moodle 1.8 before 1.8.11 and 1.9 before 1.9.7 does not use a random password salt in config.php, which makes it easier for attackers to conduct brute-force password guessing attacks.

Affected products

• Moodle Moodle: version 1.8.1 only; version 1.8.2 only; version 1.8.3 only; version 1.8.4 only; version 1.8.5 only; version 1.8.7 only; …

Published 2009-12-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.