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CVE-2023-37905

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-37905 is a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the ckeditor-wordcount-plugin for CKEditor4, specifically when switching to source code mode. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) has a network attack vector, low attack complexity, and requires user interaction, potentially leading to limited confidentiality and integrity impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, and users are advised to upgrade to version 1.17.12 or later.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.17.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ckeditor-wordcount-plugin_project:ckeditor-wordcount-plugin:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.1MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
43.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0057 is in the 46th percentile among its peer group of 26,220 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ckeditor-wordcount-pluginFixed in: 1.17.12

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-q9w4-w667-qqj4medium

ckeditor-wordcount-plugin vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting in Source Mode of Editor

Jul 10, 2023

References

github.com / TYPO3/typo3/security/advisories/GHSA-m8fw-p3cr-6jqc
github.com / w8tcha/CKEditor-WordCount-Plugin/commit/0f03b3e5b7c1409998a13aba3a95396e6fa349d8
Patch
github.com / w8tcha/CKEditor-WordCount-Plugin/commit/a4b154bdf35b3465320136fcb078f196b437c2f1
Patch
github.com / w8tcha/CKEditor-WordCount-Plugin/security/advisories/GHSA-q9w4-w667-qqj4
Vendor Advisory
typo3.org / security/advisory/typo3-core-sa-2023-004