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SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-fx5h-3786-h2w6)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 432752

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2012-6112)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fx5h-3786-h2w6

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 432752

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/11/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-6112

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/21/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-6112

BID: 60060