CVE-2012-2359: Moodle

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

admin/roles/override.php in Moodle 2.0.x before 2.0.9, 2.1.x before 2.1.6, and 2.2.x before 2.2.3 allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges by leveraging the teacher role and modifying their own capabilities, as demonstrated by obtaining the backup:userinfo capability.

Affected products

• Moodle Moodle: version 2.0.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; version 2.0.4 only; version 2.0.5 only; …

Published 2012-07-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.