samclarke SCEditor up to 3.2.0 Configuration sceditor.create cross site scripting

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in samclarke SCEditor up to 3.2.0. This vulnerability affects the function sceditor.create of the component Configuration Handler. Performing a manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2026-25581. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in samclarke SCEditor up to 3.2.0. It has been classified as problematic. This affects the function sceditor.create of the component Configuration Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

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.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-25581 since 02/03/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 3.2.1 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 5733aed4f0e257cb78e1ba191715fc458cbd473d is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-5575). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• samclarke

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• SCEditor

Version

• 3.0
• 3.1
• 3.2.0

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• open-source

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• Product: https://github.com/samclarke/SCEditor/

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