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.
Published: 2022-03-16
Score: 5.4 Medium
EPSS: 1.1% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-1305 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-4fc4-4p5g-6w89 Cross-site Scripting in CKEditor4
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7258-1 CKEditor vulnerabilities
History

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 19:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2025-04-23T18:53:42.950Z

Reserved: 2022-02-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-24728

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T04:20:49.856Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-03-16T16:15:10.907

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:50:57.820

Link: CVE-2022-24728

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