Medium severity · published Dec 8, 2022
CVE-2022-23494
Cross-site scripting vulnerability in TinyMCE alerts
6.1
CVSS
1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
tinymce is an open source rich text editor. A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in the alert and confirm dialogs when these dialogs were provided with malicious HTML content. This can occur in plugins that use the alert or confirm dialogs, such as in the `image` plugin, which presents these dialogs when certain errors occur. The vulnerability allowed arbitrary JavaScript execution when an alert presented in the TinyMCE UI for the current user. This vulnerability has been patched in TinyMCE 5.10.7 and TinyMCE 6.3.1 by ensuring HTML sanitization was still performed after unwrapping invalid elements. Users are advised to upgrade to either 5.10.7 or 6.3.1. Users unable to upgrade may ensure the the `images_upload_handler` returns a valid value as per the images_upload_handler documentation.
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)1.0% · higher than 63% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
TI
tinymce · tinymce
< 5.10.7; >= 6.0.0, < 6.3.1 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23494
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-23494
Patch
https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce/commit/6923d85eba6de3e08ebc9c5a387b5abdaa21150e
Patch
https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce/commit/8bb2d2646d4e1a718fce61a775fa22e9d317b32d
Patch
https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce/security/advisories/GHSA-gg8r-xjwq-4w92
Release Notes
https://www.tiny.cloud/docs/release-notes/release-notes5107/#securityfixes
Release Notes
https://www.tiny.cloud/docs/tinymce/6/6.3-release-notes/#security-fixes
Vendor Advisory
https://www.tiny.cloud/docs/tinymce/6/file-image-upload/#images_upload_handler
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