CVE-2026-116688

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-116688
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-116688.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-116688
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2026-10-27T19:36:28Z
Modified
2026-10-29T02:48:26Z
Severity
  • 8.1 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
CKEditor: Cross-site scripting (XSS) in the engine package
Details

CKEditor 5 is a modern JavaScript rich-text editor with an MVC architecture. From 45.0.0 until 47.7.4 and 48.5.1, the engine uses a vulnerable es-toolkit version whose prototype-pollution behavior can be reached while CKEditor processes incoming style attribute values. Crafted editor content can thereby cause unauthorized JavaScript execution in the browser. This issue is fixed in versions 47.7.4 and 48.5.1.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner":  "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-79"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/116xxx/CVE-2026-116688.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor5

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor5
Events
Database specific
Show details
{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "45.0.0"
                },
                {
                    "fixed":  "47.7.4"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "strategy":  "StringRangeExpression"
        },
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "48.0.0"
                },
                {
                    "fixed":  "48.5.1"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "strategy":  "StringRangeExpression"
        },
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "4d9c5bb34f63cd956d15ccafbe584e14280c86a0"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        },
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "a750e38635db6a18c5b11599c09f4fd702850423"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        },
        {
            "original_tag":  "v47.7.4",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "909a99ede76b640b7b4780fadaff900b8a81a27e"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_TAG"
        },
        {
            "original_tag":  "v48.5.1",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "1867f7a292a98e5740873b5f42f205d7414a0c5a"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_TAG"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v45.*
v45.0.0
v45.1.0
v45.2.0
v45.2.1
v46.*
v46.0.0
v46.0.1
v46.0.2
v46.0.3
v46.1.0
v46.1.1
v47.*
v47.0.0
v47.1.0
v47.2.0
v47.3.0
v47.4.0
v47.5.0
v47.6.0
v47.6.1
v47.7.0
v47.7.1
v47.7.2
v47.7.3
v48.*
v48.0.0
v48.0.1
v48.1.0
v48.1.1
v48.2.0
v48.3.0
v48.3.1
v48.4.0
v48.5.0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-116688.json"