Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-5546

Medium

Published: 09 November 2023

Published
09 November 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0238 85.3th percentile
Risk Priority 10 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-5546 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Moodle Moodle. Its CVSS base score is 4.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 14.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

ID numbers displayed in the quiz grading report required additional sanitizing to prevent a stored XSS risk.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

moodle
moodle
4.0.0 — 4.0.11 · 4.1.0 — 4.1.6 · 4.2.0 — 4.2.3
redhat
enterprise linux
7.0
fedoraproject
fedora
37, 38, 39

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-79

Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.

addresses: CWE-79

Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.

addresses: CWE-79

Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.

References