CVE-2024-21911
MediumCVSS 6.1Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Elevated risk64th percentile - higher than 64% of all known CVEs
Summary
Stored XSS vulnerability in TinyMCE before version 5.6.0. An unauthenticated remote attacker can inject crafted HTML into the editor, leading to arbitrary JavaScript execution in another user's browser.
Risk Assessment
Risk of session theft, account takeover, or data leakage through malicious script execution in users' browsers.
Recommendation
Immediately update TinyMCE to version 5.6.0 or later to remediate this vulnerability.
Other vulnerabilities in TinyMCE
See all- CVE-2026-47762High
TinyMCE is an open source rich text editor that prior to versions 5.11.1, 7.9.3, and 8.5.1 had a stored XSS vulnerability via forged mce:protected comments. This allows attackers to bypass sanitization and inject scripts that execute when content is restored.
- CVE-2026-47760High
TinyMCE is an open source rich text editor that from versions 6.8.0 to before 7.1.0 contains an XSS vulnerability due to improper SVG namespace scope handling in the sanitizer. A crafted payload using nested elements can bypass attribute sanitization and execute arbitrary JavaScript.
- CVE-2026-47759High
TinyMCE is an open source rich text editor that prior to versions 5.11.1, 7.9.3, and 8.5.1 had a stored XSS vulnerability via unsanitized data-mce-* attributes. This allows attackers to inject malicious values that can override safe attributes during serialization.
- CVE-2024-21910Medium
An XSS vulnerability in TinyMCE before version 5.10.0 allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to inject malicious JavaScript via crafted image or link URLs. The code executes in the browser of a user editing content.
- CVE-2024-21908Medium
Stored XSS vulnerability in TinyMCE before version 5.9.0. An unauthenticated remote attacker can inject crafted HTML into the editor, leading to arbitrary JavaScript execution in another user's browser.
Original NVD description (English source)
TinyMCE versions before 5.6.0 are affected by a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability. An unauthenticated and remote attacker could insert crafted HTML into the editor resulting in arbitrary JavaScript execution in another user's browser.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS