CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-4230
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-04-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The bbcode plugin in TinyMCE 3.5.8 does not properly enforce the TinyMCE security policy for the (1) encoding directive and (2) valid_elements attribute, which allows attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via application-specific vectors, as demonstrated using a textarea element.
Affected configurations
• tinymce tinymce 3.5.8
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://osvdb.org/91130 osvdb.org
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/120750/TinyMCE-3.5.8-Cross-Site-Scripting.html Exploit
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Mar/114 Exploit
- http://www.madirish.net/554 Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58424 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/82744 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://osvdb.org/91130 osvdb.org
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/120750/TinyMCE-3.5.8-Cross-Site-Scripting.html Exploit
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Mar/114 Exploit
- http://www.madirish.net/554 Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58424 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/82744 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com