CVE-2018-17960
CKEditor 4.x before 4.11.0 allows user-assisted XSS involving a source-mode paste.
02 Description
CKEditor 4.x before 4.11.0 allows user-assisted XSS involving a source-mode paste.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.94% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 79.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.1 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2018-11-14 20:00Z7 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 11:01Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2018-10-03
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 6473b07cc9297cd3aac5f3d18e32076b0bb4f0316d9bb6e022b5d320be102233
05 Affected products
06 References
- ckeditor.comhttps://ckeditor.com/blog/CKEditor-4.11-with-emoji-dropdown-and-auto-link-on-typing-released/
- ckeditor.comhttps://ckeditor.com/cke4/release/CKEditor-4.11.0
- www.oracle.comhttps://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html
- www.securityfocus.com109205http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/109205
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- ckeditor Fixed in 4.11.1+dfsg-1
- ckeditor3 No fix yet
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS
- ckeditor No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS
- ckeditor No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.