CVE-2012-6112 Information

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.

Reference

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 http://www.tinymce.com/develop/changelog/?type=phpspell http://www.tinymce.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=30036 https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce_spellchecker_php/commit/22910187bfb9edae90c26e10100d8145b505b974 https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220157