SCA: security update for ckeditor4 (GHSA-7889-rm5j-hpgg)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 411933

Description

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

- 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. The
vulnerability allowed to abuse paste functionality using malformed HTML, which could result in injecting
arbitrary HTML into the editor. It affects all users using the CKEditor 4 plugins listed above at version
>= 4.5.2. The problem has been recognized and patched. The fix will be available in version 4.16.2.
(CVE-2021-32809)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7889-rm5j-hpgg

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 411933

Version: Revision 1.4

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: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-32809

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/23/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/12/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-32809

IAVA: 2021-A-0384-S

cwe: CWE-79, CWE-94