CVE-2020-9440 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2020-9440

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the WSC plugin through...

Vulnerability Description

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the WSC plugin through 5.5.7.5 for CKEditor 4 allows remote attackers to run arbitrary web script inside an IFRAME element by injecting a crafted HTML element into the editor.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

ckeditor, webspellchecker, fedora
Vulnerable Versions:
4.0, 0, 30, 31, 32

Timeline

Official Publish: March 10th, 2020
Last Modified: August 4th, 2024
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.