Cross-site scripting in CKEditor - CVE-2024-24816

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Cross-site scripting in CKEditor - CVE-2024-24816

Published: February 7, 2024 / Updated: May 23, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU86224
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-2024-24816
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: Public exploit is available

Vulnerability details

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data to 4 samples that are shipped with production code. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


Affected software

CKEditor
Oracle Banking Deposits and Lines of Credit Servicing
IBM Sterling B2B Integrator
Jazz Foundation
Oracle Documaker
Ubuntu
ckeditor (Ubuntu package)

How to mitigate CVE-2024-24816

Install updates from vendor's website.

CKEditor - update to 4.24.0
IBM Sterling B2B Integrator - addressed in versions 6.1.2.6, 6.2.0.3
Jazz Foundation - addressed in versions 7.0.2.0.35, 7.0.3.0.17, 7.1.0.0.4
ckeditor (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro, 4.22.1+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.24.10.1

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