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GHSA-fx5h-3786-h2w6 PHP Spellchecker addon for TinyMCE allows attackers to trigger arbitrary outbound HTTP requests
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2012-6112
- Ecosystem
- Packagist
- Packages
- moodle/moodle
- Severity
- Moderate
- Reviewed
- 2024-01-25
Affected packages
• Packagist moodle/moodle: >= 2.1.0, < 2.1.10 → fixed in 2.1.10
• Packagist moodle/moodle: >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.7 → fixed in 2.2.7
• Packagist moodle/moodle: >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.4 → fixed in 2.3.4
• Packagist moodle/moodle: >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.1 → fixed in 2.4.1
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.
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Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2012-6112 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… vulnerability
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6112 advisory
- https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/6fac8f7f04c9fe7f8bbb54a9c00ec5f9ea4f09e0 web
- https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/9803d8fc3ce08c8f8b88ad3a95d9a7c97678a3e3 web
- https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/a3243760c243ddad76e91840134009c3681cb16a web
- https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/f938b1a89b8f381129120a37915d1b345333b3fb web
- https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce_spellchecker_php/commit/22910187bfb9edae90c26e10100d8145b505b974 web
- https://github.com/moodle/moodle package
- https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220157 web
- https://web.archive.org/web/20121015010345/http://www.tinymce.com/develop/changelog/?type=phpspell web
- https://web.archive.org/web/20121129021911/http://www.tinymce.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=30036 web
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-37283 web
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/21/1 web