Description
SCEditor is a lightweight WYSIWYG BBCode and XHTML editor. Prior to 3.2.1, if an attacker has the ability control configuration options passed to sceditor.create(), like emoticons, charset, etc. then it's possible for them to trigger an XSS attack due to lack of sanitisation of configuration options. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.2.1.
Published: 2026-02-06
Score: 5.4 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-25fq-6qgg-qpj8 SCEditor has DOM XSS via emoticon URL/HTML injection
History

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Sceditor
Sceditor sceditor
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:sceditor:sceditor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Sceditor
Sceditor sceditor

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Samclarke
Samclarke sceditor
Vendors & Products Samclarke
Samclarke sceditor

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description SCEditor is a lightweight WYSIWYG BBCode and XHTML editor. Prior to 3.2.1, if an attacker has the ability control configuration options passed to sceditor.create(), like emoticons, charset, etc. then it's possible for them to trigger an XSS attack due to lack of sanitisation of configuration options. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.2.1.
Title SCEditor affected by DOM XSS via emoticon URL/HTML injection
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


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Samclarke Sceditor
Sceditor Sceditor
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-02-09T15:27:43.193Z

Reserved: 2026-02-03T01:02:46.715Z

Link: CVE-2026-25581

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-02-09T15:19:24.793Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2026-02-06T21:16:17.307

Modified: 2026-02-19T17:23:19.897

Link: CVE-2026-25581

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Updated: 2026-02-09T10:50:11Z

Weaknesses