Cross-site scripting in TinyMCE - CVE-2024-38357

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Cross-site scripting in TinyMCE - CVE-2024-38357

Published: September 13, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU97241
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-38357
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. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

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
My webMethods Server
IBM Maximo Asset Management
IBM Maximo Application Suite
Ubuntu
Oracle Application Express
Siebel CRM End User
roundcube (Ubuntu package)

How to mitigate CVE-2024-38357

Install updates from vendor's website.

TinyMCE - addressed in versions 5.11.0, 6.8.4, 7.2.0
My webMethods Server - update to 11.1 Fix 1
roundcube (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 1.2~beta+dfsg.1-0ubuntu1+esm8, 1.3.6+dfsg.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm8, 1.4.3+dfsg.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm8, 1.5.0+dfsg.1-2ubuntu0.1~esm6, 1.6.6+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1+esm3
IBM Maximo Asset Management - update to 7.6.1.3.22
IBM Maximo Application Suite - addressed in versions 8.10.17, 8.11.14, 9.0.2

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