Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ckeditor  (opens in a new tab)


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EPSS
1.83% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1810-CKEDITOR-630544
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed7 Aug 2014

Introduced: 7 Aug 2014

CVE-2014-5191  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.10.

NVD Description

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

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Preview plugin before 4.4.3 in CKEditor allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.