CVE-2022-35650
The vulnerability was found in Moodle, occurs due to input validation error when importing lesson questions.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 53.7%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
The vulnerability was found in Moodle, occurs due to input validation error when importing lesson questions. This insufficient path checks results in arbitrary file read risk. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform directory traversal attacks. The capability to access this feature is only available to teachers, managers and admins by default.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 53.65% probability · 99th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-22, CWE-20
- Affected
- moodle/moodle · fedoraproject/fedora
- Source
- patrick@puiterwijk.org
EPSS moved from 51.0% on 11 October 2026 to 53.7% on 3 November 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.
References
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-72029Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2106274Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6MOKYVRNFNAODP2XSMGJ5CRDUZCZKAR3/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MTKUSFPSYFINSQFSOHDQIDVE6FWBEU6V/
- https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=436457Vendor Advisory
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-72029Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2106274Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6MOKYVRNFNAODP2XSMGJ5CRDUZCZKAR3/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MTKUSFPSYFINSQFSOHDQIDVE6FWBEU6V/
- https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=436457Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.