A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in: the core parser, paste
and visualchars
plugins. The vulnerability allowed arbitrary JavaScript execution when inserting a specially crafted piece of content into the editor via the clipboard or APIs. This impacts all users who are using TinyMCE 4.9.6 or lower and TinyMCE 5.1.3 or lower.
This vulnerability has been patched in TinyMCE 4.9.7 and 5.1.4 by improved parser logic and HTML sanitization.
The workarounds available are:
- disable the impacted plugins
- manually sanitize the content using the BeforeSetContent
event (see below)
- upgrade to either TinyMCE 4.9.7 or TinyMCE 5.1.4
editor.on('BeforeSetContent', function(e) {
var sanitizedContent = ...; // Manually sanitize content here
e.content = sanitizedContent;
});
Tiny Technologies would like to thank Michał Bentkowski for discovering this vulnerability.
https://www.tiny.cloud/docs/release-notes/release-notes514/#securityfixes
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Open an issue in the TinyMCE repo * Email us at infosec@tiny.cloud
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