XSS in Ckeditor

CVE-2014-5191

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Preview plugin before 4.4.3 in CKEditor allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2014-08-07 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.018 (78.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 78th percentile — 78.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.018 · newest: 0.018 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Ckeditor — versions 4.4.0, 4.4.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

ckeditor.com/node/136981 (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
secunia.com/advisories/60036 (third-party-advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/69161 (vdb-entry)