Cross-site scripting in CKEditor - CVE-2018-17960

 

Cross-site scripting in CKEditor - CVE-2018-17960

Published: November 14, 2018 / Updated: July 17, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU31182
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-17960
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.

CKEditor 4.x before 4.11.0 allows user-assisted XSS involving a source-mode paste.


Affected software

CKEditor
otrs (Alpine package)
ckeditor
Fedora
PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools
IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next
Engineering Workflow Management

How to mitigate CVE-2018-17960

Install update from vendor's website.

CKEditor - update to 4.11.0
otrs (Alpine package) - update to 6.0.33-r0
IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next - update to 9.7.2.8
ckeditor - addressed in versions 4.11.2-1.fc28, 4.11.2-1.fc29, 4.11.2-2.el6, 4.11.2-2.el7
Engineering Workflow Management - addressed in versions 7.0.1 iFix021, 7.0.2 iFix021

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