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FKIE_CVE-2023-37905

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-07-21 20:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:08

Severity

6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Summary

ckeditor-wordcount-plugin is an open source WordCount Plugin for CKEditor. It has been discovered that the `ckeditor-wordcount-plugin` plugin for CKEditor4 is susceptible to cross-site scripting when switching to the source code mode. This issue has been addressed in version 1.17.12 of the `ckeditor-wordcount-plugin` plugin and users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

References

URL	Tags
security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/TYPO3/typo3/security/advisories/GHSA-m8fw-p3cr-6jqc
security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/w8tcha/CKEditor-WordCount-Plugin/commit/0f03b3e5b7c1409998a13aba3a95396e6fa349d8	Patch
security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/w8tcha/CKEditor-WordCount-Plugin/commit/a4b154bdf35b3465320136fcb078f196b437c2f1	Patch
security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/w8tcha/CKEditor-WordCount-Plugin/security/advisories/GHSA-q9w4-w667-qqj4	Vendor Advisory
security-advisories@github.com	https://typo3.org/security/advisory/typo3-core-sa-2023-004
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://github.com/TYPO3/typo3/security/advisories/GHSA-m8fw-p3cr-6jqc
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://github.com/w8tcha/CKEditor-WordCount-Plugin/commit/0f03b3e5b7c1409998a13aba3a95396e6fa349d8	Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://github.com/w8tcha/CKEditor-WordCount-Plugin/commit/a4b154bdf35b3465320136fcb078f196b437c2f1	Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://github.com/w8tcha/CKEditor-WordCount-Plugin/security/advisories/GHSA-q9w4-w667-qqj4	Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://typo3.org/security/advisory/typo3-core-sa-2023-004

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	ckeditor-wordcount-plugin_project	ckeditor-wordcount-plugin	*

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CVE-2023-37905 (GCVE-0-2023-37905)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-07-21 19:35 – Updated: 2024-10-21 13:07

Title

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in Source Mode of Editor in ckeditor-wordcount-plugin

Summary

Severity

6.1 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-10-21 13:03 UTC

CWE

CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/w8tcha/CKEditor-WordCount-Plug…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/w8tcha/CKEditor-WordCount-Plug…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/w8tcha/CKEditor-WordCount-Plug…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/TYPO3/typo3/security/advisorie…
https://typo3.org/security/advisory/typo3-core-sa…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
w8tcha	CKEditor-WordCount-Plugin	Affected: < 1.17.12
typo3	cms-rte-ckeditor	Affected: >= 10.0.0, < 10.4.39 Affected: >= 11.0.0, < 11.5.30

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Sightings

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