TinyMCE Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in handling iframes

Description

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in TinyMCE’s content insertion code. This allowed iframe elements containing malicious code to execute when inserted into the editor.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): < 6.8.1
• Patched version(s): 6.8.1

References

• GHSA-438c-3975-5x3f
• www.tiny.cloud
• CVE-2024-29203
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

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• TinyMCE Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in handling external SVG files through Object or Embed elements - CVE-2024-29881
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• TinyMCE Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability using noneditable_regexp option - CVE-2024-38356
• Bootstrap Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability for data-* attributes - CVE-2024-6485

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