CKEditor4 Cross-site Scripting vulnerability caused by incorrect CDATA detection

Description

The vulnerability has been discovered in the core HTML parsing module and 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).

Recommendation

Update the ckeditor4 package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 4.24.0-lts
• Patched version(s): 4.24.0-lts

References

• GHSA-fq6h-4g8v-qqvm
• ckeditor.com
• www.drupal.org
• CVE-2024-24815
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• CKEditor4 Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in samples with enabled the preview feature - CVE-2024-24816
• RSSHub Cross-site Scripting vulnerability caused by internal media proxy - CVE-2024-27926
• CKEditor4 low-risk cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability linked to potential domain takeover - CVE-2024-43411
• Code Snippet GeSHi plugin in CKEditor 4 has reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability - CVE-2024-43407

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