TinaCMS: Cross-origin postMessage handlers and rich-text URL-sanitization bypass enable stored XSS and session takeover - @tinacms/app

Description

TinaCMS registers window message listeners — the useTina overlay handler, the OAuth authentication popup handler, and the admin↔preview iframe GraphQL reducer — that act on event.data without verifying event.origin or event.source, and post messages using non-specific target origins.

Recommendation

Update the @tinacms/app package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 2.5.6
• Patched version(s): 2.5.6

References

• GHSA-g5qx-h5f3-mp2f
• CVE-2026-55660
• CWE-346
• CWE-601
• CWE-79
• CWE-940
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A1
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6
• OWASP 2021-A7

Related Issues

• TinaCMS: Cross-origin postMessage handlers and rich-text URL-sanitization bypass enable stored XSS and session takeover - CVE-2026-55660
• TinaCMS rich-text (slatejson) rendering does not sanitize link/image URLs, allowing stored XSS via dangerous URL schemes - CVE-2026-55661
• TinaCMS rich-text (slatejson) rendering does not sanitize link/image URLs, allowing stored XSS via dangerous URL schemes - @tinacms/mdx - CVE-2026-55661
• TinyMCE Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability using sanitization bypass through nested SVGs - CVE-2026-47760

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@tinacms/app