ghsa-27gm-ghr9-4v95
Vulnerability from github
Published
2020-01-30 21:22
Modified
2023-06-27 16:50
Summary
Cross-site scripting vulnerability in TinyMCE
Details

Impact

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in: the core parser, paste and visualchars plugins. The vulnerability allowed arbitrary JavaScript execution when inserting a specially crafted piece of content into the editor via the clipboard or APIs. This impacts all users who are using TinyMCE 4.9.6 or lower and TinyMCE 5.1.3 or lower.

Patches

This vulnerability has been patched in TinyMCE 4.9.7 and 5.1.4 by improved parser logic and HTML sanitization.

Workarounds

The workarounds available are: - disable the impacted plugins - manually sanitize the content using the BeforeSetContent event (see below) - upgrade to either TinyMCE 4.9.7 or TinyMCE 5.1.4

Example: Manually sanitize content

js editor.on('BeforeSetContent', function(e) { var sanitizedContent = ...; // Manually sanitize content here e.content = sanitizedContent; });

Acknowledgements

Tiny Technologies would like to thank Michał Bentkowski for discovering this vulnerability.

References

https://www.tiny.cloud/docs/release-notes/release-notes514/#securityfixes

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Open an issue in the TinyMCE repo * Email us at infosec@tiny.cloud

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