UBUNTU-CVE-2012-4230

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2012-4230

    Published: 25 Apr 2014Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2012-4230

    Summary:

    Details: 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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-4230, http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/82744, 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, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-4230

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: tinymce

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+dfsg0-1?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    3.4.8+dfsg0-1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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