Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Apr 25, 2014· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2012-4230
CVE-2012-4230
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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