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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.4

CVE-2026-28343 json

CKEditor: Cross-site scripting (XSS) in the HTML Support package

published 2026-03-04 8 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-jrqm-vmqc-gm93 , EUVD-2026-9867

cvss
6.4
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 25%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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 the General HTML Support feature. This vulnerability could be triggered by inserting specially crafted markup, leading to unauthorized JavaScript code execution, if the editor instance used an unsafe General HTML Support configuration. This issue has been patched in version 47.6.0.

Patch / fix

  • npm @ckeditor/ckeditor5-html-support 47.6.0
  • npm ckeditor5 47.6.0
  • ckeditor ckeditor5 47.6.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-28343 updated cvss 6.4

ckeditor: CKEditor: Unauthorized JavaScript code execution via specially crafted markup in General HTML Support

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
8 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 25% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
GitHub 3.1 6.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm @ckeditor/ckeditor5-html-support
>=29.0.0, <47.6.0
47.6.0
npm ckeditor5
>=29.0.0, <47.6.0
47.6.0

Affected products

  • ckeditor ckeditor5

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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