CVE-2015-0217: Moodle

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

filter/mediaplugin/filter.php in Moodle through 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.7, 2.7.x before 2.7.4, and 2.8.x before 2.8.2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or partial outage) via a crafted string that is matched against an improper regular expression.

Affected products

• Moodle Moodle: up to and including 2.5.9; version 2.5.0 only; version 2.5.1 only; version 2.5.2 only; version 2.5.3 only; version 2.5.4 only; …

Published 2015-06-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.