CVE-2012-6112
EPSS 0.60%PHP Spellchecker addon for TinyMCE allows attackers to trigger arbitrary outbound HTTP requests
Published: 5/13/2022Modified: 5/27/2026
Description
classes/GoogleSpell.php in the PHP Spellchecker (aka Google Spellchecker) addon before 2.0.6.1 for TinyMCE, as used in Moodle 2.1.x before 2.1.10, 2.2.x before 2.2.7, 2.3.x before 2.3.4, and 2.4.x before 2.4.1 and other products, does not properly handle control characters, which allows remote attackers to trigger arbitrary outbound HTTP requests via a crafted string.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/wordpressfrom 0, < 3.5.1+dfsg-2
- Packagist/moodle/moodle>= 2.1.0, < 2.1.10
References (13)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6112
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6112
- PATCHhttps://github.com/moodle/moodle
- WEBhttp://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-37283
- WEBhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/21/1
- WEBhttps://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/6fac8f7f04c9fe7f8bbb54a9c00ec5f9ea4f09e0
- WEBhttps://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/9803d8fc3ce08c8f8b88ad3a95d9a7c97678a3e3
- WEBhttps://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/a3243760c243ddad76e91840134009c3681cb16a
- WEBhttps://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/f938b1a89b8f381129120a37915d1b345333b3fb
- WEBhttps://github.com/tinymce/tinymce_spellchecker_php/commit/22910187bfb9edae90c26e10100d8145b505b974
- WEBhttps://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220157
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20121015010345/http://www.tinymce.com/develop/changelog/?type=phpspell
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20121129021911/http://www.tinymce.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=30036