CVE-2014-5191

NameCVE-2014-5191
DescriptionCross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Preview plugin before 4.4.3 in CKEditor allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs760736, 1015217

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
ckeditor (PTS)bullseye4.16.0+dfsg-2fixed
bookworm4.19.1+dfsg-1fixed
sid, trixie4.22.1+dfsg1-2fixed
ckeditor3 (PTS)sid, trixie, bookworm, bullseye3.6.6.1+dfsg-7vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
ckeditorsourcesqueeze(not affected)
ckeditorsourcewheezy(not affected)
ckeditorsource(unstable)4.4.4+dfsg1-1760736
ckeditor3sourcestretch(unfixed)end-of-life
ckeditor3sourcebuster(unfixed)end-of-life
ckeditor3source(unstable)(unfixed)1015217

Notes

[wheezy] - ckeditor <not-affected> (Preview plugin not yet present)
[squeeze] - ckeditor <not-affected> (Preview plugin not yet present)
[bookworm] - ckeditor3 <ignored> (Minor issue, only used by Horde editor)
[bullseye] - ckeditor3 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - ckeditor3 <end-of-life> (No longer supported in LTS)
[stretch] - ckeditor3 <end-of-life> (EOL'd for stretch)
https://dev.ckeditor.com/browser/CKEditor/trunk/_source/plugins/preview/preview.html?rev=7706 (v3.6.x)
https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/commit/b685874c6bc873a76e6e95916c43840a2b7ab08a (v4.4.3)

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