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Medium severity · published Mar 16, 2022
CVE-2022-24728
CKEditor4 is an open source what-you-see-is-what-you-get HTML editor
5.4
CVSS
1.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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 vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.2% · higher than 68% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DR
Drupal · Drupal
8.0.0 before 9.2.15; 9.3.0 before 9.3.8 · source: NVD
AE
Application Express · Oracle
before 22.1.1 · source: NVD
CK
Ckeditor · Ckeditor
4.0 before 4.18.0 · source: NVD
CM
Commerce Merchandising · Oracle
11.3.2 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
36; 36; 37 · source: NVD
FS
Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure · Oracle
8.0.7.0.0 through 8.1.0.0.0; 8.1.1.0; 8.1.2.0; 8.1.2.1 · source: NVD
FS
Financial Services Behavior Detection Platform · Oracle
8.1.1.0 through 8.1.2.1; 8.0.7.0; 8.0.8.0 · source: NVD
FS
Financial Services Trade-based Anti Money Laundering · Oracle
8.0.7; 8.0.8 · source: NVD
PE
Peoplesoft Enterprise Peopletools · Oracle
8.58; 8.59 · source: NVD
Affected product
DR
Drupal
Drupal
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24728
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-24728
Release Notes
https://ckeditor.com/cke4/release/CKEditor-4.18.0
Patch
https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/commit/d158413449692d920a778503502dcb22881bc949
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-4fc4-4p5g-6w89
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VR76VBN5GW5QUBJFHVXRX36UZ6YTCMW6/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WOZGMCYDB2OKKULFXZKM6V7JJW4ZZHJP/
Patch
https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2022-005
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