| Name | CVE-2022-24728 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1015217 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| ckeditor (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 4.4.4+dfsg1-3+deb8u2 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security) | 4.5.7+dfsg-2+deb9u1 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 4.5.7+dfsg-2+deb9u2 | vulnerable |
| buster | 4.11.1+dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 4.16.0+dfsg-2 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 4.19.1+dfsg-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 4.22.1+dfsg1-2 | fixed |
| ckeditor3 (PTS) | stretch | 3.6.6.1+dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
| buster | 3.6.6.1+dfsg-3 | vulnerable |
| sid, bullseye, trixie, bookworm | 3.6.6.1+dfsg-7 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| ckeditor | source | stretch | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| ckeditor | source | (unstable) | 4.19.0+dfsg-1 | | | |
| ckeditor3 | source | stretch | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| ckeditor3 | source | buster | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| ckeditor3 | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | 1015217 |
Notes
[bullseye] - ckeditor <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - ckeditor <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bookworm] - ckeditor3 <ignored> (Minor issue, only used by Horde editor)
[bullseye] - ckeditor3 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - ckeditor3 <end-of-life> (No longer supported in LTS)
[stretch] - ckeditor3 <end-of-life> (EOL'd for stretch)
https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-4fc4-4p5g-6w89
https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/commit/d158413449692d920a778503502dcb22881bc949 (4.18.0)
MITRE's referenced patch (above) does not seem related
[jessie] - ckeditor <postponed> (Minor issue)