CVE-2016-3734

Publication date 20 April 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in markposts.php in Moodle 3.0 through 3.0.3, 2.9 through 2.9.5, 2.8 through 2.8.11, 2.7 through 2.7.13 and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that marks forum posts as read.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
moodle	19.04 disco	Not affected
	18.10 cosmic	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
moodle	Upstream: http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-53755

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3734