Intel

AIKIDO-2026-10218

tinymce/tinymce is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Pre-CVE
Found by Aikido Intel before public disclosure or CVE publication.
Published Feb 21, 2026

66

Medium Risk

This Affects:

PHPtinymce/tinymce
0.0.1 - 7.9.1
Fixed in 7.9.2
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TL;DR

Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to insufficient content sanitization in certain parsing scenarios. HTML-like content embedded in comments and legacy patterns may not be sanitized strictly enough when processed, potentially allowing cross-site scripting (xss) if malicious markup is rendered. The issue is mitigated by updating dependency versions and strengthening parsing logic to enforce stricter sanitization when xss_sanitization is enabled (default). Additionally, a new allow_html_in_comments configuration option provides explicit control over whether HTML-like syntax in comment nodes is permitted, reducing the risk of unintended script execution.

Who does this affect?

You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range.

Background info

tinymce/tinymce is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in versions 0.0.1 - 7.9.1.

How to fix this

Upgrade the tinymce/tinymce library to the patch version.