Medium
Security advisory
A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Color Dialog plugin for CKEditor 4.15.0 allows remote attackers to run arbitrary web script after persuading a user to copy and paste crafted HTML code into one of editor inputs.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-27193
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:05 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Color Dialog plugin for CKEditor 4.15.0 allows remote attackers to run arbitrary web script after persuading a user to copy and paste crafted HTML code into one of editor inputs.
osv:CVE-2020-27193
Complete source record
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