CVE-2022-24728: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

March 16, 2022 (updated November 7, 2023)

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

ckeditor.com/cke4/release/CKEditor-4.18.0
github.com/advisories/GHSA-4fc4-4p5g-6w89
github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/commit/d158413449692d920a778503502dcb22881bc949
github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-4fc4-4p5g-6w89
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24728
www.drupal.org/sa-core-2022-005

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