The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7258-1 advisory.

    Kevin Backhouse discovered that CKEditor did not properly sanitize HTML content. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to perform cross site scripting and obtain sensitive information. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-24728)

    It was discovered that CKEditor did not properly handle the creation of editor instances in the Iframe     Dialog and Media Embed packages. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform cross site scripting     and obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu     20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-28439)

    It was discovered that CKEditor did not properly handle parsing HTML content. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to perform cross site scripting and obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2024-24815,     CVE-2024-24816)

    It was discovered that CKEditor did not properly sanitize version notifications. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to perform cross site scripting and obtain sensitive information. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.10. (CVE-2024-43411)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 : CKEditor vulnerabilities (USN-7258-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 215049

Version 1.3

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.3 Feb 28, 2025, 2:46 PM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202502281446
Version 1.2 Feb 6, 2025, 2:20 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202502061420
Version 1.1 Feb 6, 2025, 8:37 AM New Plugin Feed: 202502060837