CKEditor4 Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in samples with enabled the preview feature

Description

The vulnerability has been discovered in the samples that use the preview feature:

• samples/old/**/*.html
• plugins/[plugin name]/samples/**/*.html

All integrators that use these samples in the production code can be affected.

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-mw2c-vx6j-mg76
• ckeditor.com
• CVE-2024-24816
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

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• CKEditor4 Cross-site Scripting vulnerability caused by incorrect CDATA detection - CVE-2024-24815
• Code Snippet GeSHi plugin in CKEditor 4 has reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability - CVE-2024-43407
• CKEditor4 low-risk cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability linked to potential domain takeover - CVE-2024-43411
• ghtml Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability - CVE-2024-37166

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ckeditor4