{"cve":"CVE-2012-6112","nvd":{"published":"2013-01-27T22:55:04.320","modified":"2026-06-16T23:47:50.920","status":"Modified","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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-264"],"references":["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"],"products":["moodle:moodle","tinymce:spellchecker_php"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T20:27:27.940201468+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2012-6112","score":0.02288,"percentile":0.83193,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}