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ckeditor, ckeditor3 — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2022-24728

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.

Products
ckeditor, ckeditor3
Affected versions
3.6.6.1+dfsg-7
Fixed versions
4.19.0+dfsg-1
CVEs
CVE-2022-24728
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
30 Oct 2026, 14:36 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-24728

core-osv · Original source

Published 16 Mar 2022, 16:15 UTC

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.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2022-24728

ckeditor

Fixed versions: 4.19.0+dfsg-1

ckeditor3

Fixed versions: Not specified

Complete source record
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