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CVE-2012-6112: moodle

CVSS: 5.0v2.0MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2012-6112DEBIAN-CVE-2012-6112
Published 27-01-2013Last modified 06-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2012-6112 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability in moodle. EPSS estimates a 2.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
20/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.0/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
2.29%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 27-01-2013
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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 metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

2.29%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

83%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 2.29% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
2.29%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • wordpress< 3.5.1+dfsg-2
Moodle1 product
  • moodle2.1.0 | 2.1.1 | 2.1.2 | 2.1.3 | 2.1.4 | 2.1.5 | 2.1.6 | 2.1.7 | 2.1.8 | 2.1.9 | 2.2.0 | 2.2.1 | 2.2.2 | 2.2.3 | 2.2.4 | 2.2.5 | 2.2.6 | 2.3.0 | 2.3.1 | 2.3.2 | 2.3.3 | 2.4.0
Tinymce1 product
  • spellchecker_php2.0 | 2.0:a1 | 2.0:a2 | 2.0:b1 | 2.0:b2 | 2.0:b3 | 2.0:rc1 | 2.0.1 | 2.0.2 | 2.0.3 | 2.0.6
Ubuntu1 product
  • tinymceAll versions (No fix recorded)

4 vendors · 4 products

References

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