CVE-2022-24728

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    CVE-2022-24728

    Published: 16 Mar 2022Last Modified: 24 Oct 2026

    Summary: Cross-site Scripting in CKEditor4

    Details: 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: https://ckeditor.com/cke4/release/CKEditor-4.18.0, https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2022-005, https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/24xxx/CVE-2022-24728.json, https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-4fc4-4p5g-6w89, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VR76VBN5GW5QUBJFHVXRX36UZ6YTCMW6/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WOZGMCYDB2OKKULFXZKM6V7JJW4ZZHJP/, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24728, https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/commit/d158413449692d920a778503502dcb22881bc949

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 769d96134bcf29f5d3d870e25797ce9b9dc8289e
    Fixed -5fe059002f8c207df80b44ef999f3d1eec280694

    Affected versions

    4.17.2
    4.17.1
    4.17.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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