Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-119553 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-119553 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-119553?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 6.5, published 30 October 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Moodle 5.3.0, 5.2.0 through 5.2.4, 5.1.0 through 5.1.8, 5.0.0 through 5.0.11, and through 4.5.15.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-119553?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-119553 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a web application.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-119553?
- Check whether you run Moodle at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
A path traversal vulnerability exists in the Blackboard question import format's text_field() function, which processes img src attributes without proper path sanitization. Teachers with question import or lesson edit rights can craft zip files with img src values containing ../ sequences; the code concatenates these unsanitized paths onto the filebase directory and copies any readable file into the teacher's draft area. The vulnerability requires authentication and teacher-level privileges; a sibling function in the same format already implements the correct PARAM_PATH sanitization but this code path was missed.
Affected products
- Moodle Moodle 5.3.0, 5.2.0 through 5.2.4, 5.1.0 through 5.1.8, 5.0.0 through 5.0.11, and through 4.5.15
Timeline
- 2026-10-30: disclosed