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Security checkFebruary 23, 2023

Cross-site scripting in CKEditor5

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Medium severitynpm ckeditor5

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Description

CKSource CKEditor5 35.4.0 was discovered to contain a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability via the Full Featured CKEditor5 widget.

NOTE: the vendor’s position is that this is not a vulnerability.

Recommendation

Update the ckeditor5 package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

Affected version(s): < 36.0.0
Patched version(s): 36.0.0

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