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Drupal: CVE-2021-41164: Drupal core - Moderately critical - Cross Site Scripting - SA-CORE-2021-011

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Nov 17, 2021
Added
Mar 23, 2022
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

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. The vulnerability allowed to inject malformed HTML bypassing content sanitization, which could result in executing JavaScript code. It affects all users using the CKEditor 4 at version < 4.17.0. The problem has been recognized and patched. The fix will be available in version 4.17.0.

Solutions

drupal-upgrade-8_9_2drupal-upgrade-9_1_1drupal-upgrade-9_2_9
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