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CVE-2022-40316 — moodle

MEDIUM

CVE-2022-40316 is a medium-severity (CVSS 4.3) CWE-862 vulnerability in moodle/moodle. A fix is available for moodle/moodle — see the affected versions and patch details below.

Moodle No groups filtering in H5P activity attempts report

Also known asBIT-moodle-2022-40316GHSA-385f-vgq7-8hhx
Published
Updated
Affected
3 pkgs
Patched
3 / 3
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Nov 4, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Exploitation Status

No confirmed exploitation observed yet

  • CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.

Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2022-40316.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
0.7%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs52th percentile — riskier than 52% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.39%0.77%1.16%0.2%0.7%May 26Sep 26Nov 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

Where this sits among everything scored

Real-World Exposure

3 pkgs affected
🐘moodle/moodle🐘moodle/moodle🐘moodle/moodle

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Description

The H5P activity attempts report did not filter by groups, which in separate groups mode could reveal information to non-editing teachers about attempts/users in groups they should not have access to.

Affected Packages

3 total 3 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
🐘Packagistmoodle/moodle≥ 3.9&&< 3.9.173.9.17composer require moodle/moodle:^3.9.17
🐘Packagistmoodle/moodle≥ 3.11&&< 3.11.103.11.10composer require moodle/moodle:^3.11.10
🐘Packagistmoodle/moodle≥ 4.0&&< 4.0.44.0.4composer require moodle/moodle:^4.0.4

Affected Products

3 products · 6 configurations
Application
extra packages for enterprise linuxfedoraproject
1 version
8.0
OS
fedorafedoraproject
2 versions
3536
Application
moodlemoodle
≥ 4.0.0 && < 4.0.4
range

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency
  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for moodle/moodle, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Fix

    Update moodle/moodle to 3.9.17 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2022-40316 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    Put an independent control in front of the weakness: restrict the affected endpoint or interface to trusted networks, require an additional authentication factor or proxy-level check, and invalidate existing sessions and credentials in case the flaw has already been used.

Frequently Asked Questions

The H5P activity attempts report did not filter by groups, which in separate groups mode could reveal information to non-editing teachers about attempts/users in groups they should not have access to.
O3 Security · Impact-Aware SCA

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CVE-2022-40316: moodle — Fixed in 3.9.17