CVE-2011-4280
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Spike PHPCoverage (aka spikephpcoverage) library, as used in Moodle 2.0.x before 2.0.2 and other products, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.
Does this matter?
A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified), so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 3.6%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Spike PHPCoverage (aka spikephpcoverage) library, as used in Moodle 2.0.x before 2.0.2 and other products, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.
- CVSS 2.0
- 4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 3.62% probability · 89th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 1 February 2011
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- moodle/moodle · nimish pachapurkar/spike phpcoverage
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
EPSS 3.6% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=bd654f0ced8af925c27b7c94321f0c299b50b38e
- http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=170005Vendor Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/14/1
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=bd654f0ced8af925c27b7c94321f0c299b50b38e
- http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=170005Vendor Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/14/1
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.