Vulnerability CVE-2012-4230
Published: 2014-04-25

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Low
TinyMCE XSS Vulnerability
Justin C. Klein ...
11.03.2013

Type:

CWE-264

 (Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Tinymce -> Tinymce 

 References:
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/82744
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58424
http://www.madirish.net/554
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Mar/114
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/120750/TinyMCE-3.5.8-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://osvdb.org/91130
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