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.
CVE-2026-102586
This medium-severity CVE scores 6.1 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.3% (18th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). GitHub Security Advisory enrichment pending alignment with NVD CVSS.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 6.1
- EG Score
- 6.1MEDIUMmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 28EG Risk 28/100CISA SSVC
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity61% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%CISA SSVC: Track at every mission impact level.Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines. - EPSS PROB
- 0.3%
- EPSS %ILE
- 18th
- KEV
- Not listed
CISA SSVCTrack at every mission impact level.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table
Published
September 30, 2026
Last Modified
October 1, 2026
Advisory Details (3)
Auto-updated Oct 1, 20262543641 – (CVE-2026-102586) CVE-2026-102586 moodle: XSS via password reset link due to insufficient username escaping
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2543641CVE-2026-102586 - Red Hat Customer Portal
Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or OpenShift Container Platform 4, is affected by this vulnerability and a fix may be released to a
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-102586Commit search results · GitHub
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-88335Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-102586(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 20× in last 7d / 20× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-10-04 10:51 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-04 10:51 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-10-03 14:25 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-03 12:32 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-03 12:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-10-02 14:12 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-02 14:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-10-01 19:49 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-01 15:52 UTCEG score recompute▲ 1.80
- 2026-10-01 15:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-10-01 15:52 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 6.1
- 2026-10-01 14:42 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-30 16:23 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-30 16:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-30 15:44 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-30 15:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-30 15:02 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-30 09:25 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-30 08:48 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-30 08:48 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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