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.
References (7)
Core 7
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WOZGMCYDB2OKKULFXZKM6V7JJW4ZZHJP/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VR76VBN5GW5QUBJFHVXRX36UZ6YTCMW6/
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
https://ckeditor.com/cke4/release/CKEditor-4.18.0
Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/commit/d158413449692d920a778503502dcb22881bc949
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-4fc4-4p5g-6w89
Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2022-005
Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
Scores
CVSS v3
5.4
EPSS
0.0099
EPSS Percentile
77.0%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-79
Status
published
Products (18)
ckeditor/ckeditor
4.0 - 4.18.0
drupal/drupal
8.0.0 - 9.2.15
fedoraproject/fedora
36
fedoraproject/fedora
37
npm/ckeditor4
0 - 4.18.0npm
oracle/application_express
< 22.1.1
oracle/commerce_merchandising
11.3.2
oracle/financial_services_analytical_applications_infrastructure
8.1.1.0
oracle/financial_services_analytical_applications_infrastructure
8.1.2.0
oracle/financial_services_analytical_applications_infrastructure
8.1.2.1
... and 8 more
Published
Mar 16, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026