Advisories for Npm/@Ckeditor/Ckeditor5-Engine package

2026

CKEditor: Cross-site scripting (XSS) in the engine package

A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been discovered in the CKEditor 5 engine. This vulnerability could be triggered by inserting specially crafted markup under a specific General HTML Support configuration that allows inserting objects, leading to unauthorized JavaScript code execution in a browser context isolated from the origin of the application embedding the editor. This vulnerability affects only installations where General HTML Support is enabled and configured to allow the …

CKEditor: Cross-site scripting (XSS) in the engine package

A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been discovered in the CKEditor 5 engine. This vulnerability is caused by a prototype pollution issue in the es-toolkit library used in the CKEditor 5 codebase. This vulnerability could lead to unauthorized JavaScript code execution when the editor processes incoming style attribute values. The underlying issue has been patched by the library maintainers, and the fix has been incorporated into CKEditor 5.

2021

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CKEditor 5 provides a WYSIWYG editing solution. A regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) vulnerability has been discovered in multiple CKEditor 5 packages. The vulnerability allowed to abuse particular regular expressions, which could cause a significant performance drop resulting in a browser tab freeze.