CVE-2022-37160: Claroline

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Claroline 13.5.7 and prior allows an authenticated attacker to elevate privileges via the arbitrary creation of a privileged user. By combining the XSS vulnerability present in several upload forms and a javascript request to the present API, it is possible to trigger the creation of a user with administrative rights by opening an SVG file as an administrator user.

Affected products

• Claroline Claroline: up to and including 13.5.7

Published 2022-08-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.