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  • Author: Appian Corporation
  • Type: Plug-in (Component)
  • Support: This plug-in or utility is not supported by the author. The content is free to use with a licensed product, but it is made available as-is and Community supported.
  • Industry: All Industries
  • Compatible Version(s): 25.2
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  • Cost: Free
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Rich Text Editor Component

Overview

Starting in 24.2, the Styled Text Editor Component is available directly in the product. Consider using this in place of the plug-in moving forward. For more information, review: https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/latest/Styled_Text_Editor_Component.html

  • Displays a field that allows for users to type text and format it with a variety of style options.
  • Output is saved as HTML. To get the raw character output, designers can use the Appian function fn!stripHtml() on the output.
  • HTML output can be passed into Send E-Mail node or document generation smart services. Note that not all formats supported by the Rich Text Editor component may be supported by e-mail or document generation.
  • Allows uploading of images which get stored in the specified Appian folder (requires separate install of the Rich Text Editor Connected System Plugin from https://community.appian.com/b/appmarket/posts/rich-text-editor-image-upload-connected-system).

Visit https://community.appian.com/w/the-appian-playbook/1378/end-user-rich-text-editor-component for more information. If you have any problems installing or using the component, please see the https://community.appian.com/w/the-appian-playbook/1603/rich-text-editor-component-plug-in-troubleshooting-guide

Key Features & Functionality

  • Component: fn!richTextField()
  • Allows for size validation
  • Allows for adjustable height
  • Allows for read-only / editable view
  • Supported font formats: "header", "size", "bold", "italic", "underline", "strike", "color", "background", "link", "align", "indent", "list"
  • Designer control over the allowed formats

Supported Browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari
Supported on Mobile

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  • in reply to chandhinir0002

    I searched and I think this is the CVE you're referring to: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3163

    If it's not, please let me know.

    That CVE talks about storing an XSS payload via an onloadstart attribute of an IMG element.  That is not exploitable by the Rich Text Editor plugin.  The plugin enforces an allow-list of possible HTML elements that can be used.  Anything that doesn't match the allow-list will be sanitized and removed. 

    Also, if you follow the links to the related Issue on the Quill repository, https://github.com/quilljs/quill/issues/3364, you'll see that this is only an issue "if untrusted content is loaded".  That's not the case with the Rich Text Editor.  Snyk has updated to say "this was deemed not a vulnerability": security.snyk.io/.../SNYK-JS-QUILL-1245047

    Long story short, this issue with the underlying Quill library isn't exploitable in the Rich Text Editor. 

  • Hi,

    We are facing the vulnerability issues while scanning this plugin. Please find the issues below and kindly help to check.

    Quill Rich Text Editor:
    Quill is vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting (XSS) because it does not correctly sanitize user input before it is processed. An attacker could exploit this flaw to execute malicious JavaScript code in a victim's browser, which can result in the theft of session tokens or cookies.  **Note**: the vendor disputes this issue, asserting that potentially dangerous content should be sanitized before being passed and loaded into the Quill editor.

    Thanks in advance!

  • in reply to Jed Fonner

    It works with the signed version!

    2022-05-18 08:02:43,519 [Appian Plugin Hot Deploy] INFO  com.appiancorp.plugins.osgi.LoggingPluginFactoryDecorator - Plug-in Artifact 'rich-text-editor-1.8.2_signed.zip' SHA256 hash is 2bdf4ad04447ef77fb99342afc7a615ee5a1b29d93c478b320f39b67338863f0
    2022-05-18 08:02:43,779 [Appian Plugin Hot Deploy] INFO  com.appiancorp.plugins.component.ComponentPluginFactory - Component plug-in package rich-text-editor-1.8.2_signed.zip loaded in 259ms
    2022-05-18 08:02:43,852 [Appian Plugin Hot Deploy] INFO  com.appiancorp.plugins.LoggingPluginEventListener - Successfully installed Component Plug-in 'Rich Text' (com.appian.richtext)

  • in reply to Sergio Valle

    The AppMarket team has uploaded the Download link to provide the correct, signed version of the plugin.  Please download the latest version and try again.  The filename should be rich-text-editor-1.8.2_signed.zip

  • in reply to Sergio Valle

    Hi  - apologies for the confusion. There was an issue with the download file. We have updated the file and rich-text-editor-1.8.2_signed.zip is available for download.

  • in reply to Sergio Valle

    I'll escalate this to the App Market approvers group and see if they can help.

  • in reply to Jed Fonner

    I have tried to downoad/install it again in our on-premise environment and the result is the same :

    2022-05-16 09:07:40,128 [Appian Plugin Hot Deploy] INFO  com.appiancorp.plugins.osgi.LoggingPluginFactoryDecorator - Plug-in Artifact 'rich-text-editor-1.8.2.zip' SHA256 hash is 34a81125cf62e3276cc32caf1de624baef6eaa832144f760807f679c2737a2cc
    2022-05-16 09:07:40,216 [Appian Plugin Hot Deploy] ERROR com.appiancorp.plugins.LoggingPluginEventListener - Failed to load Plug-in 'com.appian.richtext' (com.appian.richtext) version 0.0: 'Component plug-in approval verification failed. Please contact Appian for approval process'

  • in reply to Jed Fonner

    I downloaded the 1.8.2 version from this site. In the log file it says "Plug-in Artifact 'rich-text-editor-1.8.2.zip"

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