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CVE-2024-43427 — moodle

LOW

CVE-2024-43427 is a low-severity (CVSS 3.7) CWE-922 vulnerability in moodle/moodle. A fix is available for moodle/moodle — see the affected versions and patch details below.

Moodle: admin presets export tool includes some secrets that should not be exported

Also known asBIT-moodle-2024-43427GHSA-vpq5-56jj-vf2m
Published
Updated
Affected
4 pkgs
Patched
4 / 4
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Nov 10, 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-2024-43427.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
0.3%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs27th percentile — riskier than 27% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.38%0.75%1.13%0.6%0.3%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

4 pkgs affected
🐘moodle/moodle🐘moodle/moodle🐘moodle/moodle🐘moodle/moodle

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Description

A flaw was found in moodle. When creating an export of site administration presets, some sensitive secrets and keys are not being excluded from the export, which could result in them unintentionally being leaked if the presets are shared with a third party.

Affected Packages

4 total 4 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
🐘Packagistmoodle/moodle≥ 4.4.0&&< 4.4.24.4.2composer require moodle/moodle:^4.4.2
🐘Packagistmoodle/moodle≥ 4.3.0&&< 4.3.64.3.6composer require moodle/moodle:^4.3.6
🐘Packagistmoodle/moodle≥ 4.2.0&&< 4.2.94.2.9composer require moodle/moodle:^4.2.9
🐘Packagistmoodle/moodleall versions4.1.12composer require moodle/moodle:^4.1.12

Affected Products

1 product · 4 configurations
Application
moodlemoodle
≥ 4.4.0 && < 4.4.2
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 4.4.2 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2024-43427 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.

Frequently Asked Questions

A flaw was found in moodle. When creating an export of site administration presets, some sensitive secrets and keys are not being excluded from the export, which could result in them unintentionally being leaked if the presets are shared with a third party.
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CVE-2024-43427: moodle — Fixed in 4.4.2