What is CVE-2020-17480?

CVE-2020-17480 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Tiny Tinymce, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2020-08-10.

How severe is CVE-2020-17480?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

Is CVE-2020-17480 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Tiny Tinymce

CVE-2020-17480

TinyMCE before 4.9.7 and 5.x before 5.1.4 allows XSS in the core parser, the paste plugin, and the visualchars plugin by using the clipboard or APIs to insert content into the editor.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.012 (66.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Tiny Tinymce
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

leoambrus/artefactswithoutCVEonGitHubAdvisoryDatabase

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Release Notes)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-17480?: CVE-2020-17480 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Tiny Tinymce, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2020-08-10.
How severe is CVE-2020-17480?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2020-17480 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.