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CVE-2021-41164: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

November 17, 2021 (updated November 7, 2023)

CKEditor4 is an open source WYSIWYG HTML editor. The vulnerability allowed to inject malformed HTML bypassing content sanitization, which could result in executing JavaScript code.

References

  • github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/blob/major/CHANGES.md
  • github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-pvmx-g8h5-cprj
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41164
  • www.drupal.org/sa-core-2021-011

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 4.0 before 4.17.0

Fixed versions

  • 4.17.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 4.17.0 or above.

Impact 5.4 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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Weakness

  • CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Source file

npm/ckeditor4/CVE-2021-41164.yml

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