CVE-2026-47762

TinyMCE Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability through `mce:protected` comments

State: Published
Severity: 8.7 High
Published: May 28, 2026
Updated: May 28, 2026
Reserved: May 19, 2026

Description

TinyMCE is an open source rich text editor. Prior to 5.11.1, 7.9.3, and 8.5.1, there is a stored XSS vulnerability via forged mce:protected comments. Allows attackers to bypass sanitization and inject scripts that execute when content is restored. Impacts users who utilize the protect option. This vulnerability is fixed in 5.11.1, 7.9.3, and 8.5.1.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.7 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
tinymcetinymce	< 5.11.1Affected >= 6.0.0, <= 6.8.6Affected >= 7.0.0, < 7.9.3Affected >= 8.0.0, < 8.5.1Affected

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