GHSA-fx5h-3786-h2w6

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    GHSA-fx5h-3786-h2w6

    Published: 13 May 2022Last Modified: 8 Dec 2024
    Aliases:
    CVE-2012-6112

    Summary: PHP Spellchecker addon for TinyMCE allows attackers to trigger arbitrary outbound HTTP requests

    Details: 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.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6112, https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/6fac8f7f04c9fe7f8bbb54a9c00ec5f9ea4f09e0, https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/9803d8fc3ce08c8f8b88ad3a95d9a7c97678a3e3, https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/a3243760c243ddad76e91840134009c3681cb16a, https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/f938b1a89b8f381129120a37915d1b345333b3fb, https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce_spellchecker_php/commit/22910187bfb9edae90c26e10100d8145b505b974, https://github.com/moodle/moodle, https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220157, https://web.archive.org/web/20121015010345/http://www.tinymce.com/develop/changelog/?type=phpspell, https://web.archive.org/web/20121129021911/http://www.tinymce.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=30036, 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

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: moodle/moodle

    Purl: pkg:composer/moodle/moodle

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 2.1.0
    Fixed -2.1.10

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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