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 Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Attack Vector
- network
- Complexity
- low
- Privileges
- low
- User Action
- required
- Scope
- changed
- Confidentiality
- low
- Integrity
- low
- Availability
- none
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79CWE-79
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- CKEDITOR
- Published
- 3/16/2022
- Last Modified
- 11/21/2024
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
ckeditor : ckeditordrupal : drupaldrupal : drupaloracle : application_expressoracle : commerce_merchandisingoracle : financial_services_analytical_applications_infrastructureoracle : financial_services_analytical_applications_infrastructureoracle : financial_services_analytical_applications_infrastructureoracle : financial_services_analytical_applications_infrastructureoracle : financial_services_behavior_detection_platformoracle : financial_services_behavior_detection_platformoracle : financial_services_behavior_detection_platformoracle : financial_services_trade-based_anti_money_launderingoracle : financial_services_trade-based_anti_money_launderingoracle : peoplesoft_enterprise_peopletoolsoracle : peoplesoft_enterprise_peopletoolsfedoraproject : fedorafedoraproject : fedorafedoraproject : fedora
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