CVE-2024-24815 MEDIUM

CVE-2024-24815: CKEditor4 Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability caused by incorrect CDATA detection

Vendor Ckeditor
Product ckeditor4
Weakness CWE-79 · XSS
Published February 7, 2024
Last update February 13, 2025

CVSS base score

6.1/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

February 7, 2024 CVE published
February 13, 2025 Record updated