CVE-2024-24815

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') in npm/ckeditor4

Identifiers

GHSA-fq6h-4g8v-qqvm, CVE-2024-24815

Package Slug

npm/ckeditor4

Vulnerability

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Description

CKEditor4 is an open source what-you-see-is-what-you-get HTML editor. A cross-site scripting vulnerability has been discovered in the core HTML parsing module in versions of CKEditor4 prior to 4.24.0-lts. It may affect all editor instances that enabled full-page editing mode or enabled CDATA elements in Advanced Content Filtering configuration (defaults to script and style elements). The vulnerability allows attackers to inject malformed HTML content bypassing Advanced Content Filtering mechanism, which could result in executing JavaScript code. An attacker could abuse faulty CDATA content detection and use it to prepare an intentional attack on the editor. A fix is available in version 4.24.0-lts.

Affected Versions

All versions before 4.24.0-lts

Solution

Upgrade to version 4.24.0-lts or above.

Last Modified

2024-02-07

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