wordpress — security advisory
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.
- Products
- wordpress
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 3.5.1+dfsg-2
- CVEs
- CVE-2012-6112
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 22:33 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2012-6112
wordpress
Fixed versions: 3.5.1+dfsg-2
wordpress
Fixed versions: 3.5.1+dfsg-2
wordpress
Fixed versions: 3.5.1+dfsg-2
Complete source record
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"published_at": "2013-01-27T22:55:04.32+00:00"
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