UBUNTU-CVE-2012-4230

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-4230
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2012/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-4230.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-4230
Upstream
  • CVE-2012-4230
Published
2014-04-25T14:15:00Z
Modified
2025-10-24T04:44:57Z
Severity
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

The bbcode plugin in TinyMCE 3.5.8 does not properly enforce the TinyMCE security policy for the (1) encoding directive and (2) valid_elements attribute, which allows attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via application-specific vectors, as demonstrated using a textarea element.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / tinymce

Package

Name
tinymce
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/tinymce@3.4.8+dfsg0-1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*
3.4.8+dfsg0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "tinymce",
            "binary_version": "3.4.8+dfsg0-1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2012/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-4230.json"

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / tinymce

Package

Name
tinymce
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/tinymce@3.4.8+dfsg0-2?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*
3.4.8+dfsg0-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "tinymce",
            "binary_version": "3.4.8+dfsg0-2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2012/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-4230.json"

Ubuntu:20.04:LTS / tinymce

Package

Name
tinymce
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/tinymce@3.4.8+dfsg0-2?arch=source&distro=focal

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*
3.4.8+dfsg0-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "tinymce",
            "binary_version": "3.4.8+dfsg0-2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2012/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-4230.json"