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CVE-2022-23494

MEDIUM
Published 2022-12-08T21:29:26.610Z
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CVSS Score

V3.1
5.4
/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2025.03.14
0.023
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 2.3% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-06-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.838
Higher than 83.8% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
LOW
Availability
NONE

Description

tinymce is an open source rich text editor. 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. 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. Users are advised to upgrade to either 5.10.7 or 6.3.1. Users unable to upgrade may ensure the the `images_upload_handler` returns a valid value as per the images_upload_handler documentation.

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

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Affected Products

GitHub Security Advisories

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Cross-site scripting vulnerability in TinyMCE alerts

GHSA-gg8r-xjwq-4w92

Advisory Details

### 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)

Affected Packages

npm tinymce
ECOSYSTEM: ≥6.0.0 <6.3.1
Packagist tinymce/tinymce
ECOSYSTEM: ≥6.0.0 <6.3.1
NuGet TinyMCE
ECOSYSTEM: ≥6.0.0 <6.3.1
npm tinymce
ECOSYSTEM: ≥0 <5.10.7
Packagist tinymce/tinymce
ECOSYSTEM: ≥0 <5.10.7
NuGet TinyMCE
ECOSYSTEM: ≥0 <5.10.7

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

5.0

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: December 8, 2022, Modified: December 12, 2022

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Published: 2022-12-08T21:29:26.610Z
Last Modified: 2025-04-23T16:30:57.118Z
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