Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-41164  

In CKEditor4 before version 4.17.0, as used by Drupal beforer version 9.2.9, 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. In Drupal, an attacker that can create or edit content (even without access to CKEditor themselves) may be able to exploit one or more Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities to target users with access to the WYSIWYG CKEditor, including site admins with privileged access.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Cross-site scripting

Description

In CKEditor4 before version 4.17.0, as used by Drupal beforer version 9.2.9, 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.

In Drupal, an attacker that can create or edit content (even without access to CKEditor themselves) may be able to exploit one or more Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities to target users with access to the WYSIWYG CKEditor, including site admins with privileged access.

AVG-2565 drupal 9.2.6-1 Medium Vulnerable

https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-pvmx-g8h5-cprj
https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2021-011