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SCA: security update for tinymce (GHSA-27gm-ghr9-4v95)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423348

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - TinyMCE before 4.9.7 and 5.x before 5.1.4 allows XSS in the core parser, the paste plugin, and the
 visualchars plugin by using the clipboard or APIs to insert content into the editor. (CVE-2020-17480)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-27gm-ghr9-4v95

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423348

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-17480

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/30/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/30/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-17480

cwe: CWE-79