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CVE-2012-6112

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
27/01/2013
Last modified:
11/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:tinymce:spellchecker_php:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tinymce:spellchecker_php:2.0:a1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tinymce:spellchecker_php:2.0:a2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tinymce:spellchecker_php:2.0:b1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tinymce:spellchecker_php:2.0:b2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tinymce:spellchecker_php:2.0:b3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tinymce:spellchecker_php:2.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tinymce:spellchecker_php:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tinymce:spellchecker_php:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tinymce:spellchecker_php:2.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tinymce:spellchecker_php:2.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:2.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:2.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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