CVE-2023-5540

highpriority · track · 36EPSS 0.023 · 83 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

2.27% (83rd) EPSS

CVSS 8.8 · high

Is it mine?

13 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

A remote code execution risk was identified in the IMSCP activity. By default this was only available to teachers and managers.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 4.7–8.8

v3.18.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 5.9

v3.14.7mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Lsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.14.7mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Lsecondary · patrick@puiterwijk.orgexploitability 1.2 · impact 3.4

v3.18.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.18.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-94USprimaryCWE-94US

affected products (13)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

fedoraproject extra packages for enterprise linux= 7.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:fedoraproject:extra_packages_for_enterprise_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fedoraproject fedora= 38nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
moodle moodle< 3.9.24nvdUScpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
moodle moodle3.11.0 → 3.11.17nvdUScpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
moodle moodle4.0.0 → 4.0.11nvdUScpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
moodle moodle4.1.0 → 4.1.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
moodle moodle4.2.0 → 4.2.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Bitnami moodle< 3.9.24osvUSpkg:bitnami/moodle
Bitnami moodle3.11.0 → 3.11.17osvUSpkg:bitnami/moodle
Bitnami moodle4.0.0 → 4.0.11osvUSpkg:bitnami/moodle
Bitnami moodle4.1.0 → 4.1.6osvUSpkg:bitnami/moodle
Bitnami moodle4.2.0 → 4.2.3osvUSpkg:bitnami/moodle
Packagist moodle/moodle< 4.3.0-rc2osvUSpkg:composer/moodle/moodle

advisories (3)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2023-2669Moodle: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2023-10-16csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, authentisierter Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Moodle ausnutzen, um beliebigen Programmcode auszuführen oder einen Cross Site Scripting Angriff durchzuführen.
GHSA-w8x2-w4qr-v3x4Moodle Code Injection vulnerability2023-11-09ghsa · osvUS
A remote code execution risk was identified in the IMSCP activity. By default this was only available to teachers and managers.
BIT-moodle-2023-5540Moodle: authenticated remote code execution risk in imscp2024-03-06vendor · osvUS
A remote code execution risk was identified in the IMSCP activity. By default this was only available to teachers and managers.

also known as (5)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd cert_bund NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2023-11-09modified 2026-06-17

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references (10)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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