# CVE-2026-55661: TinaCMS rich-text (slatejson) rendering does not sanitize link/image URLs, allowing stored XSS via dangerous URL schemes

- Also known as: GHSA-2VCC-5V34-9JC8
- Severity: CVSS 4.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.9.3, 2.1.7
- Published: 2026-07-01 · Updated: 2026-07-06

## Affected

- tinacms: fixed in 3.9.3
- tinacms @tinacms/mdx: fixed in 2.1.7
- tinacms (npm): fixed in 3.9.3
- @tinacms/mdx (npm): fixed in 2.1.7

## Description

Tina is a headless content management system. In versions prior to @tinacms/mdx 2.1.7 and tinacms 3.9.3, rich-text parsing and the default link/image renderers did not sanitize the url field on Slate link/image nodes. Content containing javascript: or data:text/html URLs — including case-variant, whitespace-padded, and control-character-obfuscated forms — is rendered into href/src and executes when the content is viewed. Any actor able to author rich-text content (for example a lower-privileged editor, or imported/external content) can achieve stored XSS against editors and site viewers. This issue is fixed in versions @tinacms/mdx 2.1.7 and tinacms 3.9.3.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on tinacms, tinacms @tinacms/mdx, @tinacms/mdx, upgrade to a fixed version (3.9.3, 2.1.7) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/tinacms/tinacms/security/advisories/GHSA-2vcc-5v34-9jc8
- https://github.com/tinacms/tinacms/pull/7056

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