Medium
Security advisory
A stored XSS vulnerability exists in Umbraco CMS <= 8.9.1 or current. An authenticated user can inject arbitrary JavaScript code into iframes when editing content using the TinyMCE rich-text editor, as TinyMCE is configured to allow iframes by default in Umbraco CMS.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-5809
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:43 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A stored XSS vulnerability exists in Umbraco CMS <= 8.9.1 or current. An authenticated user can inject arbitrary JavaScript code into iframes when editing content using the TinyMCE rich-text editor, as TinyMCE is configured to allow iframes by default in Umbraco CMS.
osv:CVE-2020-5809
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:43.682527091Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2020-12-30T16:15:12.32+00:00"
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