# CVE-2019-18210: Persistent XSS in /course/modedit.php of Moodle through 3.7.2 allows authenticated users (Teacher and above) to inject JavaScript into the s

- Also known as: GHSA-Q6VW-27C6-JV9C
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-02-11 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported
- moodle/moodle (Packagist): from 3.7, through 3.7.2

## Description

Persistent XSS in /course/modedit.php of Moodle through 3.7.2 allows authenticated users (Teacher and above) to inject JavaScript into the session of another user (e.g., enrolled student or site administrator) via the introeditor[text] parameter. NOTE: the discoverer and vendor disagree on whether Moodle customers have a reasonable expectation that anyone authenticated as a Teacher can be trusted with the ability to add arbitrary JavaScript (this ability is not documented on Moodle's Teacher_role page). Because the vendor has this expectation, they have stated "this report has been closed as a false positive, and not a bug."

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, moodle/moodle, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://gist.github.com/Danbardo/4a6b0fe8cb21ec6d7c54e6ac951bdb0a
- https://docs.moodle.org/38/en/Teacher_role

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