| Description: | If user who is not XSS-trusted attempts to insert the XSS as part of the input text, it will be cleaned when displayed on Moodle website but may be displayed uncleaned in the external application |
| Issue summary: | external_format_text() cleans and formats text incorrectly |
| Severity/Risk: | Serious |
| Versions affected: | 2.8 to 2.8.5, 2.7 to 2.7.7, 2.6 to 2.6.10 and earlier unsupported versions |
| Versions fixed: | 2.9, 2.8.6, 2.7.8 and 2.6.11 |
| Reported by: | Eloy Lafuente |
| Issue no.: | MDL-49718 |
| CVE identifier: | CVE-2015-3178 |
| Changes (master): | http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-49718 |
MSA-15-0022: Potential XSS risk when returning text entered by student from Web Services
by Marina Glancy -
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