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CVE-2015-2268

Moodle allows attackers to cause a denial of service

6.8 MediumFix available

filter/urltolink/filter.php in Moodle through 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.9, 2.7.x before 2.7.6, and 2.8.x before 2.8.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or partial outage) via a crafted string that is matched against an improper regular expression.

Exploit likelihood

2.22%Up 1.2 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 6.8

filter/urltolink/filter.php in Moodle through 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.9, 2.7.x before 2.7.6, and 2.8.x before 2.8.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or partial outage) via a crafted string that is matched against an improper regular expression.

Record
CVE-2015-2268
CVSS 2.0
6.8 MediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weakness
CWE-399
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

filter/urltolink/filter.php in Moodle through 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.9, 2.7.x before 2.7.6, and 2.8.x before 2.8.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or partial outage) via a crafted string that is matched against an improper regular expression.

Record
CVE-2015-2268
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2022-2120 No score

filter/urltolink/filter.php in Moodle through 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.9, 2.7.x before 2.7.6, and 2.8.x before 2.8.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or partial outage) via a crafted string that is matched against an improper regular expression.

Record
EUVD-2022-2120
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-36cm-vrqh-8p98 No score

Moodle allows attackers to cause a denial of service

filter/urltolink/filter.php in Moodle through 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.9, 2.7.x before 2.7.6, and 2.8.x before 2.8.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or partial outage) via a crafted string that is matched against an improper regular expression.

Record
GHSA-36cm-vrqh-8p98
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVGHSA-36cm-vrqh-8p98 No score

Moodle allows attackers to cause a denial of service

filter/urltolink/filter.php in Moodle through 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.9, 2.7.x before 2.7.6, and 2.8.x before 2.8.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or partial outage) via a crafted string that is matched against an improper regular expression.

Record
GHSA-36cm-vrqh-8p98
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2015-0110 No score

Updated moodle packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated moodle package fixes security vulnerabilities:

In Moodle before 2.6.9, by modifying URL a logged in user can view the list of another user's contacts, number of unread messages and list of their courses (CVE-2015-2266).

In Moodle before 2.6.9, authentication in mdeploy can be bypassed. It is theoretically possible to extract files anywhere on the system where the web server has write access. The attacking user must know details about the system and already have significant permissions on the site (CVE-2015-2267).

In Moodle before 2.6.9, a non-optimal regular expression in the "Convert links to URLs" filter could be exploited to create extra server load or make particular pages unavailable (CVE-2015-2268).

In Moodle before 2.6.9, it is possible to create HTML injection through blocks with configurable titles, however this could only be exploited by users who are already marked as XSS-trusted (CVE-2015-2269).

In Moodle before 2.6.9, for the custom themes that use blocks regions in the base layout the blocks for inaccessible courses could be displayed together with sensitive course-related information. Most of the themes, including all standard Moodle themes, are not affected (CVE-2015-2270).

In Moodle before 2.6.9, users without proper permission are able to mark tags as inappropriate. Since this capability is given to authenticated users by default, this is not an issue for most sites (CVE-2015-2271).

In Moodle before 2.6.9, even when user's password is forced to be changed on login, user could still use it for authentication in order to create the web service token and therefore extend the life of the temporary password via web services (CVE-2015-2272).

In Moodle before 2.6.9, Quiz statistics report did not properly escape student responses and could be used for XSS attack (CVE-2015-2273).

Record
MGASA-2015-0110
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2015-2268 No score

filter/urltolink/filter.php in Moodle through 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.9, 2.7.x before 2.7.6, and 2.8.x before 2.8.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or partial outage) via a crafted string that is matched against an improper regular expression.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2268
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
moodle/moodle
Packagist
before 2.6.9
2.6.9
moodle/moodle
Packagist
2.7.0 up to 2.7.6
2.7.6
moodle/moodle
Packagist
2.8.0 up to 2.8.4
2.8.4
moodle/moodle
Packagist
before 2.6.9, plus listed versions
v2.3.10v2.3.11v2.3.4v2.3.5v2.3.6
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v2.3.7v2.3.8v2.3.9v2.4.0v2.4.0-rc1v2.4.1v2.4.10v2.4.11v2.4.2v2.4.3v2.4.4v2.4.5v2.4.6v2.4.7v2.4.8v2.4.9v2.5.0v2.5.0-betav2.5.0-rc1v2.5.1v2.5.2v2.5.3v2.5.4v2.5.5v2.5.6v2.5.7v2.5.8v2.5.9v2.6.0v2.6.0-betav2.6.0-rc1v2.6.1v2.6.2v2.6.3v2.6.4v2.6.5v2.6.6v2.6.7v2.6.8
2.6.9
moodle/moodle
Packagist
2.7.0 up to 2.7.6, plus listed versions
v2.7.0v2.7.1v2.7.2v2.7.3v2.7.4v2.7.5
2.7.6
moodle/moodle
Packagist
2.8.0 up to 2.8.4, plus listed versions
v2.8.0v2.8.1v2.8.2v2.8.3
2.8.4
moodle
Mageia:4
before 2.6.10-1.mga4
2.6.10-1.mga4

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
affected
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2015-2268 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.8) in Moodle, published March 18, 2015. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 2.22%, the 82nd percentile. Fixed in moodle/moodle 2.6.9.

References

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