Moodle security management and protocols
The Moodle community and Moodle HQ adhere to the principle of responsible disclosure. Responsible disclosure is a concept in cybersecurity that outlines a set of guidelines and ethical principles for reporting and addressing security vulnerabilities in software or hardware products. Moodle adopts a coordinated approach to handling vulnerabilities to ensure that there is time to address the issue and that registered users have an opportunity to deploy the fix before details of the issue are made public. As described on the Security procedures page in the Moodle developer documentation (see https://moodledev.io/general/development/process/security), the key steps to Moodle’s approach to responsible disclosure are the following:
- Discovery of vulnerabilities: A potential security vulnerability is discovered. As we saw in Chapter 9, this can include issues such as software bugs, default configuration errors, or design flaws that could...