| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|---|---|
| TinyMCE | ≥ 6.0.0, < 6.7.3< 5.10.9 | 6.7.35.10.9 |
| tinymce/tinymce | ≥ 6.0.0, < 6.7.3< 5.10.9 | 6.7.35.10.9 |
| tinymce | ≥ 6.0.0, < 6.7.3< 5.10.9 | 6.7.35.10.9 |
| tinymce | ≥ 6.0.0, < 6.7.3< 5.10.9 | 6.7.35.10.9 |
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:
This vulnerability has been patched in TinyMCE 6.7.3 by:
Editor.setContent, Editor.insertContent, and Editor.resetContent APIs to prevent them from being loaded into the editor as user-provided content.To avoid this vulnerability:
Tiny Technologies would like to thank Masato Kinugawa of Cure53 for discovering this vulnerability.
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