Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting ckeditor package, versions <4.19.0+dfsg-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-CKEDITOR-1922746
  • published18 Nov 2021
  • disclosed17 Nov 2021

Introduced: 17 Nov 2021

CVE-2021-41165  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable ckeditor to version 4.19.0+dfsg-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ckeditor package and not the ckeditor package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

CKEditor4 is an open source WYSIWYG HTML editor. In affected version a vulnerability has been discovered in the core HTML processing module and may affect all plugins used by CKEditor 4. The vulnerability allowed to inject malformed comments HTML bypassing content sanitization, which could result in executing JavaScript code. It affects all users using the CKEditor 4 at version < 4.17.0. The problem has been recognized and patched. The fix will be available in version 4.17.0.

CVSS Scores

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