CVE-2014-5191
medium
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v4 NEW
—
VIR risk
4.3
Description
The Preview plugin in CKEditor allows Cross-site scripting (XSS)
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 2 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| bullseye | Fixed | 4.4.4+dfsg1-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 4.4.4+dfsg1-1 |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Packagist | ckeditor/ckeditor | <4.4.3 | 4.4.3 |
References
- http://ckeditor.com/node/136981
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60036
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69161
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-5191
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-5191
- https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/commit/b685874c6bc873a76e6e95916c43840a2b7ab08a
- https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4-releases
CWEs
CWE-79
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.