ghsa-v626-r774-j7f8
Vulnerability from github
Published
2023-11-15 18:32
Modified
2023-11-15 23:26
Summary
TinyMCE vulnerable to mutation Cross-site Scripting via special characters in unescaped text nodes
Details

Impact

A mutation cross-site scripting (mXSS) vulnerability was discovered in TinyMCE’s core undo/redo functionality and other APIs and plugins. Text nodes within specific parents are not escaped upon serialization according to the HTML standard. If such text nodes contain a special character reserved as an internal marker, they can be combined with other HTML patterns to form malicious snippets. These snippets pass the initial sanitisation layer when the content is parsed into the editor body, but can trigger XSS when the special internal marker is removed from the content and re-parsed. Such mutations occur when serialised HTML content is processed before being stored in the undo stack, or when the following APIs and plugins are used: * tinymce.Editor.getContent({ format: 'raw' }) * tinymce.Editor.resetContent() * Autosave Plugin

Patches

This vulnerability has been patched in TinyMCE 6.7.3 by: * ensuring that any unescaped text nodes which contain the special internal marker are emptied before removing the marker from the rest of the HTML, and * removing the special internal marker from content strings passed to Editor.setContent, Editor.insertContent, and Editor.resetContent APIs to prevent them from being loaded into the editor as user-provided content.

Fix

To avoid this vulnerability: - Upgrade to TinyMCE 6.7.3 or higher for TinyMCE 6.x. - Upgrade to TinyMCE 5.10.9 or higher for TinyMCE 5.x.

Acknowledgements

Tiny Technologies would like to thank Masato Kinugawa of Cure53 for discovering this vulnerability.

References

For more information

Email us at infosec@tiny.cloud Open an issue in the TinyMCE repo

Show details on source website


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    "nvd_published_at": "2023-11-15T19:15:07Z",
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  "details": "### Impact\nA [mutation cross-site scripting](https://researchgate.net/publication/266654651_mXSS_attacks_Attacking_well-secured_web-applications_by_using_innerHTML_mutations) (mXSS) vulnerability was discovered in TinyMCE\u2019s core undo/redo functionality and other APIs and plugins. Text nodes within specific parents are not escaped upon serialization according to the [HTML standard](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html#serialising-html-fragments). If such text nodes contain a special character reserved as an internal marker, they can be combined with other HTML patterns to form malicious snippets. These snippets pass the initial sanitisation layer when the content is parsed into the editor body, but can trigger XSS when the special internal marker is removed from the content and re-parsed. Such mutations occur when serialised HTML content is processed before being stored in the undo stack, or when the following APIs and plugins are used:\n* [`tinymce.Editor.getContent({ format: \u0027raw\u0027 })`](https://tiny.cloud/docs/tinymce/6/apis/tinymce.editor/#getContent)\n* [`tinymce.Editor.resetContent()`](https://tiny.cloud/docs/tinymce/6/apis/tinymce.editor/#resetContent)\n* [Autosave Plugin](https://tiny.cloud/docs/tinymce/6/autosave/)\n\n### Patches\nThis vulnerability has been patched in TinyMCE 6.7.3 by:\n* ensuring that any unescaped text nodes which contain the special internal marker are emptied before removing the marker from the rest of the HTML, and\n* removing the special internal marker from content strings passed to `Editor.setContent`, `Editor.insertContent`, and `Editor.resetContent` APIs to prevent them from being loaded into the editor as user-provided content.\n\n### Fix\nTo avoid this vulnerability:\n- Upgrade to TinyMCE 6.7.3 or higher for TinyMCE 6.x.\n- Upgrade to TinyMCE 5.10.9 or higher for TinyMCE 5.x.\n\n### Acknowledgements\nTiny Technologies would like to thank Masato Kinugawa of [Cure53](https://cure53.de/) for discovering this vulnerability.\n\n### References\n- [TinyMCE 5.10.9 Release Notes](https://tiny.cloud/docs/release-notes/release-notes5109/)\n- [TinyMCE 6.7.3 Release Notes](https://tiny.cloud/docs/tinymce/6/6.7.3-release-notes/)\n\n### For more information\n\nEmail us at [infosec@tiny.cloud](mailto:infosec@tiny.cloud)\nOpen an issue in the [TinyMCE repo](https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc)",
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  "modified": "2023-11-15T23:26:01Z",
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}


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