Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ckeditor3  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-CKEDITOR3-5678214
  • published2 Dec 2018
  • disclosed14 Nov 2018

Introduced: 14 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-17960  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:13.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ckeditor3 package and not the ckeditor3 package as distributed by Debian.

CKEditor 4.x before 4.11.0 allows user-assisted XSS involving a source-mode paste.