Medium 4.6Published Sep 30, 2026

CVE-2026-102581Moodle: xss in forum post templates due to insufficient escaping

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 06:30 UTC)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

A flaw was found in Moodle. Insufficient output escaping in templates used to display forum posts enables a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. An attacker can inject malicious content into a forum post, which then executes arbitrary script code in the browser of another user viewing the affected post.

CVSS: 4.6 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-79
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: fedora
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Sep 30, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

moodle moodle moodle:moodle	before 4.5.13; from 5.0.0 before 5.0.9; from 5.1.0 before 5.1.6; from 5.2.0 before 5.2.2	NVD

References

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-88981patch
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-102581vdb-entry, x-refsource-redhat, third-party-advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2543634issue-tracking, x-refsource-redhat, third-party-advisory
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=482499vendor-advisory

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