CVE-2019-9870 describes a critical vulnerability in the plugin.js component of the w8tcha oEmbed plugin for CKEditor, affecting versions prior to 2019-03-14, due to improper handling of SCRIPT elements. This flaw carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), indicating a highly severe vulnerability that can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, potentially leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation (KEV list) and no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, with 10 mentions, suggesting awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2019-03-14CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:oembed_project:oembed:*:*:*:*:*:ckeditor:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.