CVE-2025-26528 | Stored XSS in ddimageortext question type

The drag-and-drop onto image (ddimageortext) question type required additional sanitizing to prevent a stored XSS risk.

Published: 2025-02-24 Last update: 2026-06-17 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-26528 is rated Low Risk (19.5/100): CVSS Low severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.27%). Mandatory action: Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-26528

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.71% 0.27% -0.44%
2 2026-04-05 0.60% 0.71% +0.11%
3 2026-04-04 0.60%

Full EPSS history (12 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-26528

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
3.4 3.1 LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:H)
Even with access, the exploit needs extra luck, timing, or a fussy environment to actually work.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
1.6 1.4 [email protected]
6.1 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
2.8 2.7 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-26528

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2025-26528

GHSA-h697-w4ph-7pcx · Severity: low · Ecosystem: composer — Moodle has a stored XSS in ddimageortext question type

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-26528

vendor priority summary link
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-26528 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (moodle), 9 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, upstream, xenial): DNE 6, needs-triage 3. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-26528

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-26528

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
moodle moodle >= 4.1.0, < 4.1.16 cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
moodle moodle >= 4.3.0, < 4.3.10 cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
moodle moodle >= 4.4.0, < 4.4.6 cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
moodle moodle >= 4.5.0, < 4.5.2 cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2025-26528

cvelogic Threat Intelligence