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.

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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-25fq-6qgg-qpj8 SCEditor has DOM XSS via emoticon URL/HTML injection
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Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:15:00 +0000

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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
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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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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

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Updated: 2026-02-06T20:58:02.788Z

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

Link: CVE-2026-25581

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Status : Awaiting Analysis

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

Modified: 2026-02-06T21:57:22.450

Link: CVE-2026-25581

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