Cross-site scripting in TinyMCE - CVE-2012-4230
Published: April 25, 2014 / Updated: February 20, 2021
Vulnerability identifier: #VU41752
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-4230
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. The vulnerability allows attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via application-specific vectors, as demonstrated using a textarea element.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Affected software
TinyMCE
Fedora
roundcubemail
php-pear-Auth-SASL
tinymce
sagemath
Fedora
roundcubemail
php-pear-Auth-SASL
tinymce
sagemath
How to mitigate CVE-2012-4230
Install update from vendor's website.
roundcubemail - addressed in versions 1.0.2-1.el6, 1.0.4-2.el6, 1.0.4-2.el7, 1.0.4-2.fc21
php-pear-Auth-SASL - update to 1.0.6-1.el6
tinymce - update to 4.5.1-1.el6
sagemath - update to 6.3-5.fc21
php-pear-Auth-SASL - update to 1.0.6-1.el6
tinymce - update to 4.5.1-1.el6
sagemath - update to 6.3-5.fc21