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in the Glossary module lacked a session key\ncheck potentially allowing cross-site request forgery (CVE-2015-0213).\n\nIn Moodle before 2.6.7, through web-services it was possible to access\nmessaging-related functions such as people search even if messaging is\ndisabled on the site (CVE-2015-0214).\n\nIn Moodle before 2.6.7, through web-services it was possible to get\ninformation about calendar events which user did not have enough permissions\nto see (CVE-2015-0215).\n\nIn Moodle before 2.6.7, non-optimal regular expression in the multimedia\nfilter could be exploited to create extra server load or make particular page\nunavailable, resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2015-0217).\n\nIn Moodle before 2.6.7, it was possible to forge a request to logout users\neven when not authenticated through Shibboleth 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