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 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…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.29%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 2.29% probability · 82th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-264
- Affected
- tinymce/spellchecker php · moodle/moodle
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- 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
- http://www.tinymce.com/develop/changelog/?type=phpspell
- http://www.tinymce.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=30036Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce_spellchecker_php/commit/22910187bfb9edae90c26e10100d8145b505b974
- https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220157
- 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
- http://www.tinymce.com/develop/changelog/?type=phpspell
- http://www.tinymce.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=30036Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce_spellchecker_php/commit/22910187bfb9edae90c26e10100d8145b505b974
- https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220157
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.