UBUNTU-CVE-2022-24728

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2022-24728

    Published: 16 Mar 2022Last Modified: 20 May 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2022-24728

    Summary:

    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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-24728, https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-4fc4-4p5g-6w89, https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/commit/d158413449692d920a778503502dcb22881bc949, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-24728

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: ckeditor

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/ckeditor?arch=source&distro=esm-apps%2Fxenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    4.4.4+dfsg1-3

    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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