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SCA: security update for ckeditor4 (GHSA-wh5w-82f3-wrxh)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 419933

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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.html file
 and retrieve an authorized user's information. (CVE-2023-4771)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wh5w-82f3-wrxh

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 419933

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 9.14

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-4771

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/7/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/16/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-4771

cwe: CWE-79