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CVE-2022-24728

Published: Mar 16, 2022

Modified: Apr 23, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

5.4

MEDIUM

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
ckeditor	ckeditor4	affected `< 4.18.0`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

References

https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-4fc4-4p5g-6w89

https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/commit/d158413449692d920a778503502dcb22881bc949

https://ckeditor.com/cke4/release/CKEditor-4.18.0

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html

https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2022-005

FEDORA-2022-b61dfd219b

vendor-advisory

FEDORA-2022-4c634ee466

vendor-advisory

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