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Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVE-2024-38356

Medium
6.1/10

Summary

TinyMCE is an open source rich text editor. A Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in TinyMCE's content extraction code. When using the `noneditable_regexp` option, specially crafted HTML attributes containing malicious code were able to be executed when content was extracted from the editor. This vulnerability has been patched in TinyMCE by ensuring that, when using the `noneditable_regexp` option, any content within an attribute is properly verified to match the configured regular expression before being added. This vulnerability affects NPM-tinymce, PHP-tinymce/tinymce, and NuGet-TinyMCE versions through 5.10.9, 6.0.0 through 6.8.3, and 7.0.0 through 7.1.2.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • LOW
  • CHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-79 - Cross Site Scripting

Cross-Site Scripting, commonly referred to as XSS, is the most dominant class of vulnerabilities. It allows an attacker to inject malicious code into a pregnable web application and victimize its users. The exploitation of such a weakness can cause severe issues such as account takeover, and sensitive data exfiltration. Because of the prevalence of XSS vulnerabilities and their high rate of exploitation, it has remained in the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities for years.

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