Medium severity · published Nov 15, 2023
CVE-2023-48219
Special characters in unescaped text nodes can trigger mXSS in TinyMCE
6.1
CVSS
0.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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 vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.7% · higher than 54% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
TI
tinymce · tinymce
>= 6.0.0 < 6.7.3; < 5.10.9 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-48219
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-48219
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce/security/advisories/GHSA-v626-r774-j7f8
Release Notes
https://tiny.cloud/docs/release-notes/release-notes5109/
Release Notes
https://tiny.cloud/docs/tinymce/6/6.7.3-release-notes/
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