Drupal security advisory

Number: AV18-068
Date: 19 April 2018

Purpose

The purpose of this advisory is to bring attention to a Drupal security advisory.

Assessment

Drupal has released an update to address a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability VulnerabilityA flaw or weakness in the design or implementation of an information system or its environment that could be exploited to adversely affect an organization's assets or operations. . Exploitation of this vulnerability makes it possible to execute XSS inside CKEditor when using the image2 plugin that is used by Drupal 8 core.

Affected Version:

• Drupal 8
• CKEditor versions 4.5.11 and later

Suggested Action

CCIRC recommends that owners/operators test and deploy the vendor released update or workaround to affected platforms accordingly.

References:

• https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2018-003
• https://ckeditor.com/blog/CKEditor-4.9.2-with-a-security-patch-released/