| Name | CVE-2024-24815 |
| Description | CKEditor4 is an open source what-you-see-is-what-you-get HTML editor. A cross-site scripting vulnerability has been discovered in the core HTML parsing module in versions of CKEditor4 prior to 4.24.0-lts. It may affect all editor instances that enabled full-page editing mode or enabled CDATA elements in Advanced Content Filtering configuration (defaults to `script` and `style` elements). The vulnerability allows attackers to inject malformed HTML content bypassing Advanced Content Filtering mechanism, which could result in executing JavaScript code. An attacker could abuse faulty CDATA content detection and use it to prepare an intentional attack on the editor. A fix is available in version 4.24.0-lts. |
| 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 | 1063536, 1063537 |
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 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 4.22.1+dfsg1-2 | vulnerable |
| ckeditor3 (PTS) | stretch | 3.6.6.1+dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
| buster | 3.6.6.1+dfsg-3 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie, bullseye, bookworm | 3.6.6.1+dfsg-7 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[bookworm] - ckeditor <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[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)
https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-fq6h-4g8v-qqvm
https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/commit/889315aa89de1d08f320990367ef4559551fdf9f (4.24.0-lts)
[jessie] - ckeditor <postponed> (Minor issue)