PT-2013-1898 · Tinymce+1 · Php Spellchecker Addon+1

Petr Škoda · Published 2013-01-27 · Updated 2022-05-13 · CVE-2012-6112

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions PHP Spellchecker addon versions prior to 2.0.6.1 for TinyMCE Moodle versions 2.1.x prior to 2.1.10 Moodle versions 2.2.x prior to 2.2.7 Moodle versions 2.3.x prior to 2.3.4 Moodle versions 2.4.x prior to 2.4.1

Description The issue arises from improper handling of control characters in the PHP Spellchecker addon, allowing remote attackers to trigger arbitrary outbound HTTP requests via a crafted string.

Recommendations For PHP Spellchecker addon version prior to 2.0.6.1, update to version 2.0.6.1 or later. For Moodle version 2.1.x, update to version 2.1.10 or later. For Moodle version 2.2.x, update to version 2.2.7 or later. For Moodle version 2.3.x, update to version 2.3.4 or later. For Moodle version 2.4.x, update to version 2.4.1 or later.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-6112

GHSA-FX5H-3786-H2W6

Affected Products

Moodle

Php Spellchecker Addon

References · 22

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-6112 · Vendor Advisory
• http://tinymce.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=30036 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-fx5h-3786-h2w6 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-6112 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6112 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-6112 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-6112 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-6112 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6112 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/9803d8fc3ce08c8f8b88ad3a95d9a7c97678a3e3 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/6fac8f7f04c9fe7f8bbb54a9c00ec5f9ea4f09e0 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/f938b1a89b8f381129120a37915d1b345333b3fb · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/a3243760c243ddad76e91840134009c3681cb16a · Note
• https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce_spellchecker_php/commit/22910187bfb9edae90c26e10100d8145b505b974 · Note