CVE-2025-13980 (GCVE-0-2025-13980)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-28 20:01 – Updated: 2026-01-29 17:11
VLAI?
Title
CKEditor 5 Premium Features - Moderately critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2025-118
Summary
Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability in Drupal CKEditor 5 Premium Features allows Functionality Bypass.This issue affects CKEditor 5 Premium Features: from 0.0.0 before 1.2.10, from 1.3.0 before 1.3.6, from 1.4.0 before 1.4.3, from 1.5.0 before 1.5.1, from 1.6.0 before 1.6.4.
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-288 - Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Drupal CKEditor 5 Premium Features Affected: 0.0.0 , < 1.2.10 (semver)
Affected: 1.3.0 , < 1.3.6 (semver)
Affected: 1.4.0 , < 1.4.3 (semver)
Affected: 1.5.0 , < 1.5.1 (semver)
Affected: 1.6.0 , < 1.6.4 (semver)
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Credits
Wojciech Kukowski (salmonek) Wojciech Kukowski (salmonek) Greg Knaddison (greggles) Juraj Nemec (poker10) Jess (xjm)
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