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CVE-2012-6112

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-6112 describes a vulnerability in the PHP Spellchecker (Google Spellchecker) addon for TinyMCE, affecting Moodle versions 2.1.x through 2.4.x. The flaw in classes/GoogleSpell.php allows remote attackers to trigger arbitrary outbound HTTP requests by sending a crafted string containing control characters. Rated with a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires no authentication, potentially leading to information disclosure (partial impact) by enabling attackers to make requests from the vulnerable server. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tinymce:spellchecker_php:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tinymce:spellchecker_php:2.0:a1:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tinymce:spellchecker_php:2.0:a2:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tinymce:spellchecker_php:2.0:b1:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tinymce:spellchecker_php:2.0:b2:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.29%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0229 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: moodle/moodleFixed in: 2.1.10
composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: moodle/moodleFixed in: 2.2.7
composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: moodle/moodleFixed in: 2.3.4
composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: moodle/moodleFixed in: 2.4.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

composerGHSA-fx5h-3786-h2w6medium

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

May 13, 2022

References

git.moodle.org / gw
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2013/01/21/1
github.com / tinymce/tinymce_spellchecker_php/commit/22910187bfb9edae90c26e10100d8145b505b974
moodle.org / mod/forum/discuss.php
tinymce.com / develop/changelog
tinymce.com / forum/viewtopic.php
Vendor Advisory