Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting ckeditor-dev package, versions <4.4.6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDnpm:ckeditor-dev:20141118
  • published26 Sept 2016
  • disclosed18 Nov 2014
  • creditMaco Cortes

Introduced: 18 Nov 2014

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ckeditor-dev to version 4.4.6 or greater.

Overview

ckeditor-dev is a browser-based WYSIWYG editor. Affected versions of this package were vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks. It was possible to execute XSS inside CKEditor after persuading the victim to: (i) switch CKEditor to source mode, then (ii) paste a specially crafted HTML code, prepared by the attacker, into the opened CKEditor source area, and (iii) switch back to WYSIWYG mode.

The vulnerability was found by Maco Cortes.

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