CVE-2018-11093 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Link package for CKEditor 5 befo

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Link package for CKEditor 5 before 10.0.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script through a crafted href attribute of a link (A) element.

01What is this vulnerability?

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Link package for CKEditor 5 before 10.0.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script through a crafted href attribute of a link (A) element.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-05-22T18:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T07:54:36.540Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor5-link/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#1001-2018-05…
• ckeditor.com — https://ckeditor.com/blog/CKEditor-5-v10.0.1-released/