Vulnerability in Tinymce

CVE-2012-4230

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.

EPSS: 0.012 (65.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Tinymce — versions 3.5.8
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References