Description
CKEditor4 is an open source what-you-see-is-what-you-get HTML editor. CKEditor4 prior to version 4.18.0 contains a vulnerability in the `dialog` plugin. The vulnerability allows abuse of a dialog input validator regular expression, which can cause a significant performance drop resulting in a browser tab freeze. A patch is available in version 4.18.0. There are currently no known workarounds.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Attack Vector
- network
- Complexity
- low
- Privileges
- none
- User Action
- required
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- high
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400CWE-1333
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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