Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ckeditor (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published1 Jun 2025
- disclosed16 Mar 2022
Introduced: 16 Mar 2022
CVE-2022-24728 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ckeditor package and not the ckeditor package as distributed by Ubuntu.
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.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2022-24728
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VR76VBN5GW5QUBJFHVXRX36UZ6YTCMW6/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WOZGMCYDB2OKKULFXZKM6V7JJW4ZZHJP/
- https://ckeditor.com/cke4/release/CKEditor-4.18.0
- https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/commit/d158413449692d920a778503502dcb22881bc949
- https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-4fc4-4p5g-6w89
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VR76VBN5GW5QUBJFHVXRX36UZ6YTCMW6/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WOZGMCYDB2OKKULFXZKM6V7JJW4ZZHJP/
- https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2022-005
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html