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[Publicly available Moodle plugin: Moderated RSS] Vulnerability information.

The developers of the Moodle plugin ‘Moderated RSS (Blocks ::: block_selectrss)’ asked me to inform you that their advice is not to use this plugin anymore.
Rationale: There is a known issue with this plugin that can be used to display malware to users of sites.
The general advice from the developers is removing this plugin from the site.
If you got any questions regarding this plugin I kindly refer you to the developers.

[Reference]
The procedure for checking whether the relevant plug-in is installed on the customer’s site is as follows.
Site administration>Plugins>Plugins overview

[Citation]
Moderated RSS
https://moodle.org/plugins/block_selectrss

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