CVE-2023-48219
A mutation cross-site scripting (mXSS) vulnerability was discovered in TinyMCE’s core undo/redo functionality and other APIs and plugins.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.71%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
TinyMCE is an open source rich text editor. 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. his vulnerability has been patched in TinyMCE versions 6.7.3 and 5.10.9. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.71% probability · 52th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- tiny/tinymce
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce/security/advisories/GHSA-v626-r774-j7f8Vendor Advisory
- https://tiny.cloud/docs/release-notes/release-notes5109/Release Notes
- https://tiny.cloud/docs/tinymce/6/6.7.3-release-notes/Release Notes
- https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce/security/advisories/GHSA-v626-r774-j7f8Vendor Advisory
- https://tiny.cloud/docs/release-notes/release-notes5109/Release Notes
- https://tiny.cloud/docs/tinymce/6/6.7.3-release-notes/Release Notes
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.