CVE-2012-6112

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-6112
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-01-27 22:55:04 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
Descriptionclasses/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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-264 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Moodle Moodle 2.1.0 All All All
Application Moodle Moodle 2.1.1 All All All
Application Moodle Moodle 2.1.2 All All All
Application Moodle Moodle 2.1.3 All All All
Application Moodle Moodle 2.1.4 All All All
Application Moodle Moodle 2.1.5 All All All
Application Moodle Moodle 2.1.6 All All All
Application Moodle Moodle 2.1.7 All All All
Application Moodle Moodle 2.1.8 All All All
Application Moodle Moodle 2.1.9 All All All
Application Moodle Moodle 2.2.0 All All All
Application Moodle Moodle 2.2.1 All All All
Application Moodle Moodle 2.2.2 All All All
Application Moodle Moodle 2.2.3 All All All
Application Moodle Moodle 2.2.4 All All All
Application Moodle Moodle 2.2.5 All All All
Application Moodle Moodle 2.2.6 All All All
Application Moodle Moodle 2.3.0 All All All
Application Moodle Moodle 2.3.1 All All All
Application Moodle Moodle 2.3.2 All All All
Application Moodle Moodle 2.3.3 All All All
Application Moodle Moodle 2.4.0 All All All
Application Tinymce Spellchecker Php 2.0 All All All
Application Tinymce Spellchecker Php 2.0 a1 All All
Application Tinymce Spellchecker Php 2.0 a2 All All
Application Tinymce Spellchecker Php 2.0 b1 All All
Application Tinymce Spellchecker Php 2.0 b2 All All
Application Tinymce Spellchecker Php 2.0 b3 All All
Application Tinymce Spellchecker Php 2.0 rc1 All All
Application Tinymce Spellchecker Php 2.0.1 All All All
Application Tinymce Spellchecker Php 2.0.2 All All All
Application Tinymce Spellchecker Php 2.0.3 All All All
Application Tinymce Spellchecker Php 2.0.6 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
TinyMCE - Changelog for "PHP Spellchecker" af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.tinymce.com
Official Moodle git projects - moodle.git/search af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 git.moodle.org
TinyMCE - Forum / TinyMCE / News / TinyMCE Spellchecker PHP 2.0.6.1 Released af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.tinymce.com Vendor Advisory
Moodle.org: MSA-13-0001: Security issue in Google Spellchecker in TinyMCE af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 moodle.org
Fixed security issue with google spellchecker · tinymce/tinymce_spellchecker_php@2291018 · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com
oss-security - Moodle security notifications public af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 openwall.com
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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