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CVE-2012-6112

Date: January 27, 2013

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.

Language: PHP

Severity Score

Related Resources (9)

http://www.tinymce.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=30036
http://www.tinymce.com/develop/changelog/?type=phpspell
https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce_spellchecker_php/commit/22910187bfb9edae90c26e10100d8145b505b974
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6112
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6112
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-37283
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/21/1
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220157
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-6112

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

CWE-264

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): LOW
Availability (A): NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): NONE
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