Cross-site Scripting in CKEditor4 (ckeditor ckeditor4)

CVE-2022-24728

MEDIUM 5.4

At a glance

Source: NVD
EPSS: EPSS 1.20 % · percentile 68 (2026-10-29)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2022-03-16 00:00 UTC
Updated: 2025-04-23 18:53 UTC
Assigner: GitHub_M
NVD status: Modified

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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-79 — Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.4	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N	GitHub_M
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.4	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N	NVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.4	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0	LOW 3.5	AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Advisories

DRUPAL-CORE-2022-005 — The Drupal project uses the [CKEditor](https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4) library for WYSIWYG editing. CKEditor has released [a security update that impacts
GHSA-4fc4-4p5g-6w89 — Cross-site Scripting in CKEditor4

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2022-1305
GCVE · GCVE-0-2022-24728

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2024-AVI-0992 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2023-AVI-0362 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2022-AVI-658 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Oracle PeopleSoft · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2022-AVI-654 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Oracle Database Server · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2022-AVI-252 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Drupal · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:ckeditor:ckeditor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 4.0 < 4.18.0
cpe:2.3:a:drupal:drupal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 8.0.0 < 9.2.15
cpe:2.3:a:drupal:drupal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 9.3.0 < 9.3.8
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:application_express:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 22.1.1
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:commerce_merchandising:11.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:financial_services_analytical_applications_infrastructure:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 8.0.7.0.0 ≤ 8.1.0.0.0
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:financial_services_analytical_applications_infrastructure:8.1.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:financial_services_analytical_applications_infrastructure:8.1.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:financial_services_analytical_applications_infrastructure:8.1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:financial_services_behavior_detection_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 8.1.1.0 ≤ 8.1.2.1
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:financial_services_behavior_detection_platform:8.0.7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:financial_services_behavior_detection_platform:8.0.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:financial_services_trade-based_anti_money_laundering:8.0.7:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:financial_services_trade-based_anti_money_laundering:8.0.8:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:peoplesoft_enterprise_peopletools:8.58:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:peoplesoft_enterprise_peopletools:8.59:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
ckeditor · ckeditor4	affected < 4.18.0

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD

🟡 Cross-site Scripting in CKEditor4 (ckeditor ckeditor4)