Vulnerability CVE-2022-24729


Published: 2022-03-16

Description:
CKEditor4 is an open source what-you-see-is-what-you-get HTML editor. CKEditor4 prior to version 4.18.0 contains a vulnerability in the `dialog` plugin. The vulnerability allows abuse of a dialog input validator regular expression, which can cause a significant performance drop resulting in a browser tab freeze. A patch is available in version 4.18.0. There are currently no known workarounds.

Type:

CWE-400

(Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion'))

 References:
https://ckeditor.com/cke4/release/CKEditor-4.18.0
https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-f6rf-9m92-x2hh

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