CVE-2026-116687
Received Received - Intake

Stored XSS in CKEditor 5 with General HTML Support

Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-116687, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.

Publication date: 2026-10-27

Last updated on: 2026-10-27

Assigner: GitHub, Inc.

Description

CKEditor 5 is a modern JavaScript rich-text editor with an MVC architecture. From 29.0.0 until 47.7.4 and 48.5.1, specially crafted markup can trigger cross-site scripting when General HTML Support is enabled and specifically configured to allow object content. Processing that content can execute attacker-controlled JavaScript in a browser context isolated from the origin of the application embedding the editor. This issue is fixed in versions 47.7.4 and 48.5.1.

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Published
2026-10-27
Last Modified
2026-10-27
Generated
2026-10-27
EPSS Evaluated
N/A
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Affected Vendors & Products

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ckeditor ckeditor5 >= 29.0.0, < 47.7.4
ckeditor ckeditor5 >= 48.0.0, < 48.5.1

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CWE ID Description
CWE-79 The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.

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