CVE-2024-24816

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in samples with enabled the preview feature

CKEditor4 is an open source what-you-see-is-what-you-get HTML editor. A cross-site scripting vulnerability vulnerability has been discovered in versions prior to 4.24.0-lts in samples that use the `preview` feature. All integrators that use these samples in the production code can be affected. The vulnerability allows an attacker to execute JavaScript code by abusing the misconfigured preview feature. It affects all users using the CKEditor 4 at version < 4.24.0-lts with affected samples used in a production environment. A fix is available in version 4.24.0-lts.

Affected

ckeditor · ckeditor4

CVSS v3.1 NVD

6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS

1.65% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 76th percentile

Published

2024-02-07

Updated

2024-08-01

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• afine-com/CVE-2024-248162★ · 2024-02-10

Security advisories

• ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-mw2c-vx6j-mg76
• advisories/GHSA-mw2c-vx6j-mg76
• ckeditor/ckeditor4/commit/8ed1a3c93d0ae5f49f4ecff5738ab8a2972194cb
• https://ckeditor.com/cke4/addon/preview

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2018-25031
• CVE-2022-35501
• CVE-2022-36433
• CVE-2023-35840
• CVE-2023-39062
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