GHSA-gg8r-xjwq-4w92
Cross-site scripting vulnerability in TinyMCE alerts
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Impact
A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in the alert and confirm dialogs when these dialogs were provided with malicious HTML content. This can occur in plugins that use the alert or confirm dialogs, such as in the `image` plugin, which presents these dialogs when certain errors occur. The vulnerability allowed arbitrary JavaScript execution when an alert presented in the TinyMCE UI for the current user.
### Patches
This vulnerability has been patched in TinyMCE 5.10.7 and TinyMCE 6.3.1 by ensuring HTML sanitization was still performed after unwrapping invalid elements.
### Fix
To avoid this vulnerability:
- Upgrade to TinyMCE 5.10.7 or higher for TinyMCE 5.x.
- Upgrade to TinyMCE 6.3.1 or higher for TinyMCE 6.x.
### Workaround
To reduce the impact of this vulnerability:
- Ensure the the `images_upload_handler` returns a valid value as per the images_upload_handler documentation.
### References
- https://www.tiny.cloud/docs/release-notes/release-notes5107/#securityfixes
- https://www.tiny.cloud/docs/tinymce/6/6.3-release-notes/#security-fixes
### For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
* Email us at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
* Open an issue in the [TinyMCE repo](https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce/issues)
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce/security/advisories/GHSA-gg8r-xjwq-4w92
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23494
- https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce/commit/6923d85eba6de3e08ebc9c5a387b5abdaa21150e
- https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce/commit/8bb2d2646d4e1a718fce61a775fa22e9d317b32d
- https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce
- https://www.tiny.cloud/docs/release-notes/release-notes5107/#securityfixes
- https://www.tiny.cloud/docs/tinymce/6/6.3-release-notes/#security-fixes
- https://www.tiny.cloud/docs/tinymce/6/file-image-upload/#images_upload_handler