CVE-2025-53021

Published Jun 24, 2025

Last updated 9 days ago

Overview

Description
A session fixation vulnerability in Moodle 3.x through 3.11.18 allows unauthenticated attackers to hijack user sessions via the sesskey parameter. The sesskey can be obtained without authentication and reused within the OAuth2 login flow, resulting in the victim's session being linked to the attacker's. Successful exploitation results in full account takeover. According to the Moodle Releases page, "Bug fixes for security issues in 3.11.x ended 11 December 2023." NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Analyzed
CNA Tags
unsupported-when-assigned

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
4.2
Impact score
2.5
Exploitability score
1.6
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Severity
MEDIUM

Weaknesses

cve@mitre.org
CWE-384

Social media

Hype score
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