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CVE-2018-17960
CKEditor 4.x before 4.11.0 allows user-assisted XSS involving a source-mode paste.
- 6.1MediumCVSS base score
- 1.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 20% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
CKEditor 4.x before 4.11.0 allows user-assisted XSS involving a source-mode paste.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 42 days later
· 42 days later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.9% · top 20% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagisttypo3/cmsGHSA-g68x-vvqq-pvw3 (opens in a new tab)
- Packagisttypo3/cms-coreGHSA-g68x-vvqq-pvw3 (opens in a new tab)
- npmckeditorGHSA-g68x-vvqq-pvw3 (opens in a new tab)
References
References4
- https://ckeditor.com/blog/CKEditor-4.11-with-emoji-dropdown-and-auto-link-on-typing-released/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://ckeditor.com/cke4/release/CKEditor-4.11.0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 109205 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-0752 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-g68x-vvqq-pvw3 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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