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Debian: CVE-2022-24728: ckeditor, ckeditor3 -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2022-24728: ckeditor, ckeditor3 -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
03/16/2022
Created
07/31/2024
Added
07/30/2024
Modified
07/30/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-ckeditor
  • debian-upgrade-ckeditor3

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