CVSS 3.1
5.4 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NCVE-2022-24728
Medium (5.4). EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in ckeditor4 4.18.0.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 68% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-79
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- ckeditor:ckeditor
- drupal:drupal
- fedoraproject:fedora
- oracle:application_express
- oracle:commerce_merchandising
- oracle:financial_services_analytical_applications_infrastructure
- oracle:financial_services_behavior_detection_platform
- oracle:financial_services_trade-based_anti_money_laundering
- oracle:peoplesoft_enterprise_peopletools
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-4fc4-4p5g-6w89 | npm | ckeditor4 | <4.18.0 | 4.18.0 |
References
- https://ckeditor.com/cke4/release/CKEditor-4.18.0
- https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/commit/d158413449692d920a778503502dcb22881bc949
- https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-4fc4-4p5g-6w89
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VR76VBN5GW5QUBJFHVXRX36UZ6YTCMW6/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WOZGMCYDB2OKKULFXZKM6V7JJW4ZZHJP/