CVE-2022-24728
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.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.20%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.4 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 1.20% probability · 66th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- ckeditor/ckeditor · drupal/drupal · 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 · fedoraproject/fedora
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- https://ckeditor.com/cke4/release/CKEditor-4.18.0Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/commit/d158413449692d920a778503502dcb22881bc949Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-4fc4-4p5g-6w89Third Party Advisory
- 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/
- https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2022-005Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://ckeditor.com/cke4/release/CKEditor-4.18.0Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/commit/d158413449692d920a778503502dcb22881bc949Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-4fc4-4p5g-6w89Third Party Advisory
- 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/
- https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2022-005Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.