ubuntu · CVE-2012-4230

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Priority: medium Published: 2014-04-25 14:15:00 UTC Updated: 2024-07-24 15:57:39 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2012-4230 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (tinymce), 29 status rows across 29 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lucid, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, precise, quantal, questing, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 14, DNE 11, needed 4.

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.

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