CVE-2022-24728Cross-site Scripting in CKEditor4
- 5.4MediumCVSS base score
- 1.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 31% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 34 days later
· 34 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 31% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.4.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmckeditor4GHSA-4fc4-4p5g-6w89 (opens in a new tab)
References
References7
- https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-4fc4-4p5g-6w89 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/commit/d158413449692d920a778503502dcb22881bc949 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://ckeditor.com/cke4/release/CKEditor-4.18.0 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2022-005 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-b61dfd219b (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-4c634ee466 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_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-2022-1305 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-4fc4-4p5g-6w89 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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