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Security checkFebruary 06, 2026

SCEditor has DOM XSS via emoticon URL/HTML injection

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Medium severitynpmsceditor

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Description

If an attacker has the ability control configuration options passed to sceditor.create(), like emoticons, charset, etc. then it’s possible for them to trigger an XSS attack due to lack of sanitisation of configuration options.

Recommendation

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

  • Affected version(s): <= 3.2.0
  • Patched version(s): 3.2.1

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