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GHSA-v626-r774-j7f8

MediumCVSS 6.1 / 10
Published Nov 15, 2023·Last modified Feb 21, 2024
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

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:

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

Risk Scores
Base Score
6.1

The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. The attacker needs the user to perform some action, like clicking a link. The vulnerability can affect other systems as well, not just the initial system. There is a low impact on the confidentiality of the information. There is a low impact on the integrity of the data.

Threat Intelligence
5.6

Exploitation attempts have been detected. Elevated vigilance and prompt remediation are advised.

EPSS
0.71%

The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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