CVE-2025-3642 (GCVE-0-2025-3642)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-04-25 14:43
Modified
2025-04-28 16:37
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Summary
A flaw was found in Moodle. A remote code execution risk was identified in the Moodle LMS EQUELLA repository. By default, this was only available to teachers and managers on sites with the EQUELLA repository enabled.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Version: 4.5.0   ≤
Version: 4.4.0   ≤
Version: 4.3.0   ≤
Version: 4.1.0   ≤
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