About “CKEditor”

A curated feed of “CKEditor”-related CVEs appears below. We currently track 74 CVEs for this tag (all time). In the last 365 days, 12 were published. Average CVSS is 6.6 (all time; 6.6 over 365d), and 34% are rated High/Critical (all time). Top CWEs (last 365 days): CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'), CWE-434 - Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type, CWE-288 - Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel.

In our taxonomy this topic maps to a LOW impact class. Vendor advisories and release notes are key. Verify compatibility matrices, prefer supported long term versions, and stage rollouts with monitoring. Use the filters below to sort by CVSS, risk and CWE. Each detail page highlights vendor advisories and mitigation tips.

Support & lifecycle: ckeditor

This table shows recent release cycles and their projected end-of-life. Data source: endoflife.date.

CycleReleaseLatestExtended SupportEOLLTS
548.0.1Unavailable-
44.25.1 ExpiredLTS

Maintained Soon (≤ 180 days) Expired

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CVSS ≥ 0.0
2026-05-08
High

CVE-2026-41524

Brave CMS is an open-source CMS. Prior to commit 6c56603, page and article body content entered through the CKEditor rich-text editor is stored verbatim in the database and subsequently rendered with…

2026-04-06
High

CVE-2026-35164

Brave CMS is an open-source CMS. Prior to 2.0.6, an unrestricted file upload vulnerability exists in the CKEditor upload functionality. It is found in app/Http/Controllers/Dashboard/CkEditorControlle…

Critical

CVE-2026-35047

Brave CMS is an open-source CMS. Prior to 2.0.6, an Unrestricted File Upload vulnerability in the CKEditor endpoint allows attackers to upload arbitrary files, including executable scripts. This may…

2026-03-05
Medium

CVE-2026-28343

CKEditor 5 is a modern JavaScript rich-text editor with an MVC architecture. Starting in version 29.0.0 and prior to version 47.6.0, a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been discovered in…

2026-01-28
Medium

CVE-2025-13980

Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability in Drupal CKEditor 5 Premium Features allows Functionality Bypass.This issue affects CKEditor 5 Premium Features: from 0.0.0 bef…

2025-11-07
Medium

CVE-2025-61261

A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in CKeditor v46.1.0 & Angular v18.0.0 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in the context of a user's browser via injecting a crafted payloa…

2025-09-23
Medium

CVE-2025-59547

DNN (formerly DotNetNuke) is an open-source web content management platform (CMS) in the Microsoft ecosystem. Prior to version 10.1.0, the CKEditor file upload endpoint has insufficient sanitization…

2025-09-09
Critical

CVE-2025-55727

XWiki Remote Macros provides XWiki rendering macros that are useful when migrating content from Confluence. Starting in version 1.0 and prior to version 1.26.5, missing escaping of the width paramete…

2025-09-04
Low

CVE-2025-58064

CKEditor 5 is a modern JavaScript rich-text editor with an MVC architecture. ckeditor5 and ckeditor5-clipboard versions 46.0.0 through 46.0.2 and 44.2.0 through 45.2.1 contain a Cross-Site Scripting…

2025-08-22
Medium

CVE-2025-43761

A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.131, and Liferay DXP 2024.Q4.0 through 2024.Q4.4, 2024.Q3.1 through 2024.Q3.13, 2024.Q2.0 through 2024.Q…

2025-08-18
Low

CVE-2025-9103

A vulnerability was detected in ZenCart 2.1.0. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component CKEditor. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. The attack can be…

2025-08-04
Critical

CVE-2013-10054

An unauthenticated arbitrary file upload vulnerability exists in LibrettoCMS version 1.1.7 (and possibly earlier) contains an unauthenticated arbitrary file upload vulnerability in its File Manager p…

2025-04-03
High

CVE-2025-31487

The XWiki JIRA extension provides various integration points between XWiki and JIRA (macros, UI, CKEditor plugin). If the JIRA macro is installed, any logged in XWiki user could edit his/her user pro…

2025-03-31
Medium

CVE-2025-2978

A vulnerability was found in WCMS 11. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file /index.php?articleadmin/upload/?&CKEditor=container&CKEditorFuncN…

2025-02-20
Low

CVE-2025-25299

CKEditor 5 is a modern JavaScript rich-text editor with an MVC architecture. During a recent internal audit, a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in the CKEditor 5 real-time coll…

2025-02-03
Medium

CVE-2025-25062

An XSS issue was discovered in Backdrop CMS 1.28.x before 1.28.5 and 1.29.x before 1.29.3. It doesn't sufficiently isolate long text content when the CKEditor 5 rich text editor is used. This allows…

2025-01-14
Critical

CVE-2025-23025

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. NOTE: The Realtime WYSIWYG Editor extension was **experimental**, and thus **not recommended**…

2025-01-09
Medium

CVE-2024-13245

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Drupal CKEditor 4 LTS - WYSIWYG HTML editor allows Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).This issue affects…

2024-12-23
High

CVE-2024-56363

APTRS (Automated Penetration Testing Reporting System) is a Python and Django-based automated reporting tool designed for penetration testers and security organizations. In 1.0, there is a vulnerabil…

2024-09-25
Medium

CVE-2024-45613

CKEditor 5 is a JavaScript rich-text editor. Starting in version 40.0.0 and prior to version 43.1.1, a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability is present in the CKEditor 5 clipboard package. This vu…

2024-09-06
Medium

CVE-2024-45400

ckeditor-plugin-openlink is a plugin for the CKEditor JavaScript text editor that extends the context menu with a possibility to open a link in a new tab. A vulnerability in versions of the plugin pr…

2024-08-21
Low

CVE-2024-43411

CKEditor4 is an open source what-you-see-is-what-you-get HTML editor. A theoretical vulnerability has been identified in CKEditor 4.22 (and above). In a highly unlikely scenario where an attacker gai…

Medium

CVE-2024-43407

CKEditor4 is an open source what-you-see-is-what-you-get HTML editor. A potential vulnerability has been discovered in CKEditor 4 Code Snippet GeSHi plugin. The vulnerability allowed a reflected XSS…

2024-08-12
Critical

CVE-2024-42489

Pro Macros provides XWiki rendering macros. Missing escaping in the Viewpdf macro allows any user with view right on the `CKEditor.HTMLConverter` page or edit or comment right on any page to perform…

2024-07-31
Medium

CVE-2024-7329

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in YouDianCMS 7. Affected is an unknown function of the file /Public/ckeditor/plugins/multiimage/dialogs/image_upload.php. The manipulatio…

2024-06-14
Medium

CVE-2024-37888

The Open Link is a CKEditor plugin, extending context menu with a possibility to open link in a new tab. The vulnerability allowed to execute JavaScript code by abusing link href attribute. It affect…

2024-06-07
High

CVE-2024-30162

Invision Community through 4.7.16 allows remote code execution via the applications/core/modules/admin/editor/toolbar.php IPS\core\modules\admin\editor\_toolbar::addPlugin() method. This method handl…

2024-05-28
High

CVE-2023-46694

Vtenext 21.02 allows an authenticated attacker to upload arbitrary files, potentially enabling them to execute remote commands. This flaw exists due to the application's failure to enforce proper aut…

2024-02-07
Medium

CVE-2024-24816

CKEditor4 is an open source what-you-see-is-what-you-get HTML editor. A cross-site scripting vulnerability vulnerability has been discovered in versions prior to 4.24.0-lts in samples that use the `p…

2023-12-03
Low

CVE-2018-25094

A vulnerability was found in ระบบบัญชีออนไลน์ Online Accounting System up to 1.4.0 and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file ckeditor/filemanager/browser/d…

2023-11-16
Medium

CVE-2023-4771

A Cross-Site scripting vulnerability has been found in CKSource CKEditor affecting versions 4.15.1 and earlier. An attacker could send malicious javascript code through the /ckeditor/samples/old/ajax…

2023-07-21
Medium

CVE-2023-37905

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…

2023-06-30
Critical

CVE-2023-36477

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. Any user with edit rights can edit all pages in the `CKEditor' space. This makes it possible t…

2023-06-13
Critical

CVE-2023-31541

A unrestricted file upload vulnerability was discovered in the ‘Browse and upload images’ feature of the CKEditor v1.2.3 plugin for Redmine, which allows arbitrary files to be uploaded to the server.

2023-04-15
Critical

CVE-2023-29209

XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. Any user with view rights on commonly accessible documents including the legacy notification activity macro can…

2023-02-13
Medium

CVE-2022-48110

CKSource CKEditor 5 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…

2023-01-04
Critical

CVE-2023-22457

CKEditor Integration UI adds support for editing wiki pages using CKEditor. Prior to versions 1.64.3,t he `CKEditor.HTMLConverter` document lacked a protection against Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSR…

2022-11-02
High

CVE-2022-39950

An improper neutralization of input during web page generation vulnerability [CWE-79] exists in FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer 6.0.0 all versions, 6.2.0 all versions, 6.4.0 through 6.4.8, and 7.0.0 t…

2022-10-18
Medium

CVE-2022-42116

A Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Frontend Editor module's integration with CKEditor in Liferay Portal 7.3.2 through 7.4.3.14, and Liferay DXP 7.3 before update 6, and 7.4 before upda…

2022-08-03
Medium

CVE-2022-31175

CKEditor 5 is a JavaScript rich text editor. A cross-site scripting vulnerability has been discovered affecting three optional CKEditor 5's packages in versions prior to 35.0.1. The vulnerability all…

2022-03-16
Medium

CVE-2022-24728

CKEditor4 is an open source what-you-see-is-what-you-get HTML editor. A vulnerability has been discovered in the core HTML processing module and may affect all plugins used by CKEditor 4 prior to ver…

2022-02-14
Critical

CVE-2022-24977

ImpressCMS before 1.4.2 allows unauthenticated remote code execution via ...../// directory traversal in origName or imageName, leading to unsafe interaction with the CKEditor processImage.php script…

2022-02-11
Medium

CVE-2020-13669

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in ckeditor of Drupal Core allows attacker to inject XSS. This issue affects: Drupal Core 8.8.x versions prior to 8.8.10.; 8.9.x versions prior to 8.9.6; 9.0.…

2021-11-17
High

CVE-2021-41165

CKEditor4 is an open source WYSIWYG HTML editor. In affected version a vulnerability has been discovered in the core HTML processing module and may affect all plugins used by CKEditor 4. The vulnerab…

High

CVE-2021-41164

CKEditor4 is an open source WYSIWYG HTML editor. In affected versions a vulnerability has been discovered in the Advanced Content Filter (ACF) module and may affect all plugins used by CKEditor 4. Th…

2021-10-22
Medium

CVE-2020-36493

DedeCMS v7.5 SP2 was discovered to contain multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the component media_main.php via the `activepath`, `keyword`, `tag`, `fmdo=x&filename`, `CKEditor` an…

Medium

CVE-2020-36492

DedeCMS v7.5 SP2 was discovered to contain multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the component select_media.php via the `activepath`, `keyword`, `tag`, `fmdo=x&filename`, `CKEditor`…

Medium

CVE-2020-36491

DedeCMS v7.5 SP2 was discovered to contain multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the component tags_main.php via the `activepath`, `keyword`, `tag`, `fmdo=x&filename`, `CKEditor` and…

Medium

CVE-2020-36490

DedeCMS v7.5 SP2 was discovered to contain multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the component file_manage_view.php via the `activepath`, `keyword`, `tag`, `fmdo=x&filename`, `CKEdit…

Medium

CVE-2020-23044

DedeCMS v7.5 SP2 was discovered to contain multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the component file_pic_view.php via the `activepath`, `keyword`, `tag`, `fmdo=x&filename`, `CKEditor`…

2021-08-13
High

CVE-2021-37695

ckeditor is an open source WYSIWYG HTML editor with rich content support. A potential vulnerability has been discovered in CKEditor 4 [Fake Objects](https://ckeditor.com/cke4/addon/fakeobjects) packa…

2021-08-12
Medium

CVE-2021-32809

ckeditor is an open source WYSIWYG HTML editor with rich content support. A potential vulnerability has been discovered in CKEditor 4 [Clipboard](https://ckeditor.com/cke4/addon/clipboard) package. T…

High

CVE-2021-32808

ckeditor is an open source WYSIWYG HTML editor with rich content support. A vulnerability has been discovered in the clipboard Widget plugin if used alongside the undo feature. The vulnerability allo…

2021-06-17
Medium

CVE-2020-36389

In CiviCRM before 5.28.1 and CiviCRM ESR before 5.27.5 ESR, the CKEditor configuration form allows CSRF.

2021-06-09
Medium

CVE-2021-33829

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the HTML Data Processor in CKEditor 4 4.14.0 through 4.16.x before 4.16.1 allows remote attackers to inject executable JavaScript code through a crafted…

2021-04-29
Medium

CVE-2021-21391

CKEditor 5 provides a WYSIWYG editing solution. This CVE affects the following npm packages: ckeditor5-engine, ckeditor5-font, ckeditor5-image, ckeditor5-list, ckeditor5-markdown-gfm, ckeditor5-media…

2021-01-29
Medium

CVE-2021-21254

CKEditor 5 is an open source rich text editor framework with a modular architecture. The CKEditor 5 Markdown plugin (@ckeditor/ckeditor5-markdown-gfm) before version 25.0.0 has a regex denial of serv…

2021-01-26
Medium

CVE-2021-26272

It was possible to execute a ReDoS-type attack inside CKEditor 4 before 4.16 by persuading a victim to paste crafted URL-like text into the editor, and then press Enter or Space (in the Autolink plug…

Medium

CVE-2021-26271

It was possible to execute a ReDoS-type attack inside CKEditor 4 before 4.16 by persuading a victim to paste crafted text into the Styles input of specific dialogs (in the Advanced Tab for Dialogs pl…

2020-11-12
Medium

CVE-2020-27193

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Color Dialog plugin for CKEditor 4.15.0 allows remote attackers to run arbitrary web script after persuading a user to copy and paste crafted HTML co…

2020-03-10
Medium

CVE-2020-9440

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the WSC plugin through 5.5.7.5 for CKEditor 4 allows remote attackers to run arbitrary web script inside an IFRAME element by injecting a crafted HTML el…

2020-03-07
Medium

CVE-2020-9281

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the HTML Data Processor for CKEditor 4.0 before 4.14 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script through a crafted "protected" comment (with t…

2019-12-02
Critical

CVE-2019-19502

Code injection in pluginconfig.php in Image Uploader and Browser for CKEditor before 4.1.9 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary PHP code.

2019-11-13
High

CVE-2011-4972

hook_file_download in the CKEditor module 7.x-1.4 for Drupal does not properly restrict access to private files, which allows remote attackers to read private files via a direct request.

2019-08-27
Medium

CVE-2015-9349

The ckeditor-for-wordpress plugin before 4.5.3.1 for WordPress has reflected XSS in the "built-in (old)" file browser.

2019-03-21
Critical

CVE-2019-9870

plugin.js in the w8tcha oEmbed plugin before 2019-03-14 for CKEditor mishandles SCRIPT elements.

2018-11-14
Medium

CVE-2018-17960

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

2018-05-22
Medium

CVE-2018-11093

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Link package for CKEditor 5 before 10.0.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script through a crafted href attribute of a link (A) element.

2018-04-19
Medium

CVE-2018-9861

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Enhanced Image (aka image2) plugin for CKEditor (in versions 4.5.10 through 4.9.1; fixed in 4.9.2), as used in Drupal 8 before 8.4.7 and 8.5.x before 8…

2016-11-04
High

CVE-2016-9182

Exponent CMS 2.4 uses PHP reflection to call a method of a controller class, and then uses the method name to check user permission. But, the method name in PHP reflection is case insensitive, and Ex…

2014-08-07
Medium

CVE-2014-5191

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Preview plugin before 4.4.3 in CKEditor allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

2012-09-05
Medium

CVE-2012-2067

Unspecified vulnerability in the CKeditor module 6.x-2.x before 6.x-2.3 and the CKEditor module 6.x-1.x before 6.x-1.9 and 7.x-1.x before 7.x-1.7 for Drupal, when the core PHP module is enabled, allo…

Medium

CVE-2012-2066

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the FCKeditor module 6.x-2.x before 6.x-2.3 and the CKEditor module 6.x-1.x before 6.x-1.9 and 7.x-1.x before 7.x-1.7 for Drupal allows remote authenticate…

2012-06-27
Medium

CVE-2012-2722

The node selection interface in the WYSIWYG editor (CKEditor) in the Node Embed module 6.x-1.x before 6.x-1.5 and 7.x-1.x before 7.x-1.0 for Drupal does not properly check permissions, which allows r…

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