Vulnerability CVE-2012-6112
Published: 2013-01-27   Modified: 2013-01-28

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.

Type:

CWE-noinfo

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Tinymce -> Spellchecker php 
Moodle -> Moodle 

 References:
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220157
https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce_spellchecker_php/commit/22910187bfb9edae90c26e10100d8145b505b974
http://www.tinymce.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=30036
http://www.tinymce.com/develop/changelog/?type=phpspell
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/21/1
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-37283
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