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CVE-2023-37905GHSA-Q9W4-W667-QQJ4

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in Source Mode of Editor in ckeditor-wordcount-plugin

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.17.12, 10.4.39, 11.5.30
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

ckeditor-wordcount-plugin is an open source WordCount Plugin for CKEditor. It has been discovered that the `ckeditor-wordcount-plugin` plugin for CKEditor4 is susceptible to cross-site scripting when switching to the source code mode. This issue has been addressed in version 1.17.12 of the `ckeditor-wordcount-plugin` plugin and users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • w8tcha CKEditor-WordCount-Plugin

    fixed in 1.17.12

  • typo3 cms-rte-ckeditor

    From 10.0.0 · fixed in 10.4.39; From 11.0.0 · fixed in 11.5.30

  • ckeditor-wordcount-pluginnpm

    fixed in 1.17.12

References 5

GitHub · w8tcha/CKEditor-WordCount-Plugin

GitHub · TYPO3/typo3

typo3.org