Moodle backs up private files

HIGH 7.5CVE-2012-1156 · GHSA-358r-g2xw-7c83 · Published 14/11/2019 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2012-1156 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting moodle/moodle, moodle (moodle).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.1%, higher than 82.1% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 2.0.8, 2.1.5, 2.2.2 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
moodle/moodle Packagist	`≥ 2.0, < 2.0.8≥ 2.1, < 2.1.5≥ 2.2, < 2.2.2`	`2.0.82.1.52.2.2`
moodle moodle	`< 2.2.2`	`2.2.2`

Moodle before 2.2.2, 2.1.5, and 2.0.8 had users' private files included in course backups unnecessarily.

NVD description

Moodle before 2.2.2 has users' private files included in course backups

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

Packagist

≥ 2.0, < 2.0.8≥ 2.1, < 2.1.5≥ 2.2, < 2.2.2

2.0.82.1.52.2.2

< 2.2.2

2.2.2

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