Description
CKEditor4 is an open source what-you-see-is-what-you-get HTML editor. A vulnerability has been discovered in the core HTML processing module and may affect all plugins used by CKEditor 4 prior to version 4.18.0. The vulnerability allows someone to inject malformed HTML bypassing content sanitization, which could result in executing JavaScript code. This problem has been patched in version 4.18.0. There are currently no known workarounds.
CVSS breakdown
CVSS 3.1
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Affected products
- ckeditor / ckeditor4< 4.18.0 – < 4.18.0
References
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-4fc4-4p5g-6w89
- PATCHhttps://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/commit/d158413449692d920a778503502dcb22881bc949
- MISChttps://ckeditor.com/cke4/release/CKEditor-4.18.0
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
- MISChttps://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2022-005
- MAILING_LISThttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WOZGMCYDB2OKKULFXZKM6V7JJW4ZZHJP/
- MAILING_LISThttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VR76VBN5GW5QUBJFHVXRX36UZ6YTCMW6/
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