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
0.16% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-CKEDITOR-2432905
  • published25 Mar 2022
  • disclosed16 Mar 2022

Introduced: 16 Mar 2022

CVE-2022-24728  (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 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 Scores

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