CVE-2012-6112

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 12 years ago

2013-01-27 22:55:00

Last updated 12 years ago

2013-01-30 05:00:00

Affected Software

tinymce PHP Spellchecker (aka Google Spellchecker) 2.0

2.0

tinymce PHP Spellchecker (aka Google Spellchecker) 2.0a1

2.0

tinymce PHP Spellchecker (aka Google Spellchecker) 2.0a2

2.0

tinymce PHP Spellchecker (aka Google Spellchecker) 2.0b1

2.0

tinymce PHP Spellchecker (aka Google Spellchecker) 2.0b2

2.0

tinymce PHP Spellchecker (aka Google Spellchecker) 2.0b3

2.0

tinymce PHP Spellchecker (aka Google Spellchecker) 2.0 Release Candidate 1

2.0

tinymce PHP Spellchecker (aka Google Spellchecker) 2.0.1

2.0.1

tinymce PHP Spellchecker (aka Google Spellchecker) 2.0.2

2.0.2

tinymce PHP Spellchecker (aka Google Spellchecker) 2.0.3

2.0.3

tinymce PHP Spellchecker (aka Google Spellchecker) 2.0.6

2.0.6

Moodle 2.1

2.1

Moodle 2.1.1

2.1.1

Moodle 2.1.2

2.1.2

Moodle 2.1.3

2.1.3

Moodle 2.1.4

2.1.4

Moodle 2.1.5

2.1.5

Moodle 2.1.6

2.1.6

Moodle 2.1.7

2.1.7

Moodle 2.1.8

2.1.8

Moodle 2.1.9

2.1.9

Moodle 2.2

2.2

Moodle 2.2.1

2.2.1

Moodle 2.2.2

2.2.2

Moodle 2.2.3

2.2.3

Moodle 2.2.4

2.2.4

Moodle 2.2.5

2.2.5

Moodle 2.2.6

2.2.6

Moodle 2.3

2.3

Moodle 2.3.1

2.3.1

Moodle 2.3.2

2.3.2

Moodle 2.3.3

2.3.3

Moodle 2.4

2.4

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