CVE-2025-13980: CKEditor 5 Premium Features - Moderately critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2025-118

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-01-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-288

Description

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.

Affected products

Drupal CKEditor 5 Premium Features: before 1.2.10; from 1.3.0 before 1.3.6; from 1.4.0 before 1.4.3; from 1.6.0 before 1.6.4; 1.5.0 — fixed in 1.2.10, 1.3.6, 1.4.3, 1.6.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Drupal CKEditor 5 Premium Features 1.2.10, 1.3.6, 1.4.3, 1.6.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2025-118

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