Moodle: xss via password reset link due to insufficient username escaping
A flaw was found in Moodle. Insufficient sanitization of username input on the password reset page allows a remote attacker to conduct a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. By convincing an unauthenticated user to access a specially crafted password reset link, an attacker could execute arbitrary script in the victim's browser.
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-102586US | medium6.1 | — | ||
A flaw was found in Moodle. Insufficient sanitization of username input on the password reset page allows a remote attacker to conduct a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. By convi… | ||||
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references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-88335FIX
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-102586ADVISORY
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2543641ADVISORY
- https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=482504ADVISORY
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-102586WEB
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