PHP Spellchecker addon for TinyMCE allows attackers to trigger arbitrary outbound HTTP requests
Moderate severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
May 13, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Jan 25, 2024
Package
Affected versions
>= 2.1.0, < 2.1.10
>= 2.2.0, < 2.2.7
>= 2.3.0, < 2.3.4
= 2.4.0
Patched versions
2.1.10
2.2.7
2.3.4
2.4.1
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Jan 27, 2013
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 13, 2022
Reviewed
Jan 25, 2024
Last updated
Jan 25, 2024
Credits
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MarkLee131 Analyst
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.
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