CVE-2010-1616: Moodle

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Moodle 1.8.x and 1.9.x before 1.9.8 can create new roles when restoring a course, which allows teachers to create new accounts even if they do not have the moodle/user:create capability.

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 1.8.6 only; …

Published 2010-04-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.