Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ckeditor3  (opens in a new tab)


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1.57% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-CKEDITOR3-2841166
  • 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)

Amendment

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

NVD Description

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

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.