E-learning Platforms Security Issues and Vulnerability Analysis
Meghna Bhatia, Josh Maitra · 2018
E-Learning is a fairly a new concept of learning electronically, mostly through the internet. Web applications and E-learning Platforms are important and billions of users rely for performing routine activities. User-friendliness, 24/7 availability and ubiquitous of web applications have made them vulnerable. A unpretentious implementation fault in the application could allow an invader to steal sensitive information and perform adversary actions, and hence it is important to secure web applications from attacks. Defensive mechanisms for securing web applications from the flaws have received attention from both academia and industry. In this paper, all available modern-day open-source learning management systems (E-Learning software) are evaluated for security issues and vulnerabilities. Those platforms were thoroughly tested using two web vulnerability scanners due to the big variances among security scanners. The key aim was to assess this software category illustrating valuable conclusions on their security level today, since such popular categories of software should above all ensure that security is a must, something that seems to be neglected: until now this category of software was not tested in the literature for weaknesses; The major contribution of this paper is to inform the educational community about the prevailing vulnerabilities and the probable risks and flaws with the significant results, and offer a valuable contribution to the developing communities of the above platforms by recommending a significant security model. This security model can be easily adapted to the needs of every different e-learning platform or even web platforms in over-all since this is an almost non-existing topic in the current scientific literature.