CVE-2015-1493: Moodle

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the min_get_slash_argument function in lib/configonlylib.php in Moodle through 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.8, 2.7.x before 2.7.5, and 2.8.x before 2.8.3 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the file parameter, as demonstrated by reading PHP scripts.

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.