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Special characters in unescaped text nodes can trigger mXSS in TinyMCE

Published Nov 15, 2023

Description

TinyMCE is an open source rich text editor. A mutation cross-site scripting (mXSS) vulnerability was discovered in TinyMCE’s core undo/redo functionality and other APIs and plugins. Text nodes within specific parents are not escaped upon serialization according to the HTML standard. If such text nodes contain a special character reserved as an internal marker, they can be combined with other HTML patterns to form malicious snippets. These snippets pass the initial sanitisation layer when the content is parsed into the editor body, but can trigger XSS when the special internal marker is removed from the content and re-parsed. his vulnerability has been patched in TinyMCE versions 6.7.3 and 5.10.9. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner GitHub_M
Published Nov 15, 2023
Updated Aug 29, 2024
Reserved Nov 13, 2023
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Aug 29, 2024
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
GHSA-V626-R774-J7F8