CVE-2012-4230

medium

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/82744

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58424

http://osvdb.org/91130

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2014-04-25

Updated: 2017-08-29

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium