CVE-2012-6112: PHP Spellchecker addon for TinyMCE allows attackers to trigger arbitrary outbound HTTP requests

medium Affects moodle/moodle. Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published ; advisory modified .

PHP Spellchecker addon for TinyMCE allows attackers to trigger arbitrary outbound HTTP requests

Package
moodle/moodle Composer
Affected versions
>=2.1.0 and <2.1.10 or >=2.2.0 and <2.2.7 or >=2.3.0 and <2.3.4 or >=2.4.0 and <2.4.1
Fixed in
2.1.10, 2.2.7, 2.3.4, 2.4.1
Severity
medium
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 2% (83.1th percentile)
Published
2022-05-13
Source
osv.dev

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