CVE-2014-7838 Information

Description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Forum module in Moodle through 2.4.11 2.5.x before 2.5.9 2.6.x before 2.6.6 and 2.7.x before 2.7.3 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that set a tracking preference within (1) mod/forum/deprecatedlib.php (2) mod/forum/forum.js (3) mod/forum/index.php or (4) mod/forum/lib.php.

Reference

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-48019 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/17/11 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031215 https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=275164