Excessive Authorization Vulnerability in Moodle Allows Disclosure of Student E-mail Addresses

Excessive Authorization Vulnerability in Moodle Allows Disclosure of Student E-mail Addresses

CVE-2016-2151 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

user/index.php in Moodle through 2.6.11, 2.7.x before 2.7.13, 2.8.x before 2.8.11, 2.9.x before 2.9.5, and 3.0.x before 3.0.3 grants excessive authorization on the basis of the moodle/course:viewhiddenuserfields capability, which allows remote authenticated users to discover student e-mail addresses by leveraging the teacher role and reading a Participants list.

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