🛡️ CVE-2022-24728 on Debian — ckeditor

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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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.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2022-24728 as tracked by Debian, for the package ckeditor. The fix is available in version 4.19.0+dfsg-1; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-24728 is classified as CWE-79: Cross-site Scripting (XSS). User-supplied data is written into a page without escaping, so attacker script runs in the browser of anyone who views it.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-24728 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • ckeditor (fixed in 4.19.0+dfsg-1)
  • ckeditor3

Timeline and source

Published on 16 March 2022 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2022-24728 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-03-16
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ckeditor — 4.19.0+dfsg-1
ckeditor3 — —

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