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CVE-2012-6112

N/A

Published: January 27, 2013 at 10:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:47 PM UTC

2 products affected across 2 vendorsMoodleSpellchecker PHP

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 2%

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Moodle · Moodle

95%

2.1.0 2.1.1 2.1.2 2.1.3 2.1.4 2.1.5 2.1.6 2.1.7 2.1.8 2.1.9 2.2.0 2.2.1 2.2.2 2.2.3 2.2.4 2.2.5 2.2.6 2.3.0 2.3.1 2.3.2 2.3.3 2.4.0

Spellchecker PHP · Tinymce

95%

2.0 2.0 a1 2.0 a2 2.0 b1 2.0 b2 2.0 b3 2.0 rc1 2.0.1 2.0.2 2.0.3 2.0.6

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

http://www.tinymce.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=30036

References (6)

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-37283

Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST

Source: [email protected]

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/21/1

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

http://www.tinymce.com/develop/changelog/?type=phpspell

x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://www.tinymce.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=30036

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce_spellchecker_php/commit/22910187bfb9edae90c26e10100d8145b505b974

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220157

CVSS

5MEDIUM[email protected]

Confidentiality: NONE
Integrity: PARTIAL
Availability: NONE

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-264

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