Description
CKEditor4 is an open source what-you-see-is-what-you-get HTML editor. CKEditor4 prior to version 4.18.0 contains a vulnerability in the `dialog` plugin. The vulnerability allows abuse of a dialog input validator regular expression, which can cause a significant performance drop resulting in a browser tab freeze. A patch is available in version 4.18.0. There are currently no known workarounds.
Published: 2022-03-16
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: 2.5% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-29580 CKEditor4 is an open source what-you-see-is-what-you-get HTML editor. CKEditor4 prior to version 4.18.0 contains a vulnerability in the `dialog` plugin. The vulnerability allows abuse of a dialog input validator regular expression, which can cause a significant performance drop resulting in a browser tab freeze. A patch is available in version 4.18.0. There are currently no known workarounds.
History

Mon, 09 Nov 2026 20:30:00 +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: 2025-04-23T18:53:35.902Z

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

Link: CVE-2022-24729

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T04:20:49.845Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-03-16T17:15:07.943

Modified: 2026-06-17T04:32:23.217

Link: CVE-2022-24729

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Weaknesses
  • CWE-1333

    Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

  • CWE-400

    Uncontrolled Resource Consumption