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Security checkJanuary 28, 2023

Cross-site scripting vulnerability in TinyMCE alerts

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Medium severitynpmtinymce

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Description

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.

Recommendation

Update the tinymce package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

  • Affected version(s): **< 5.10.7 >= 6.0.0, < 6.3.1**
  • Patched version(s): **5.10.7 6.3.1**

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