CKEditor 5 Premium Features up to 1.6.3 on Drupal authentication bypass

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A vulnerability was found in CKEditor 5 Premium Features up to 1.2.9/1.3.5/1.4.2/1.5.0/1.6.3 on Drupal. It has been rated as critical. Impacted is an unknown function. This manipulation causes authentication bypass. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2025-13980. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in CKEditor 5 Premium Features up to 1.2.9/1.3.5/1.4.2/1.5.0/1.6.3 on Drupal. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authentication bypass vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-288. A product requires authentication, but the product has an alternate path or channel that does not require authentication. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The weakness was published by Wojciech Kukowski as sa-contrib-2025-118. It is possible to read the advisory at drupal.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-13980 since 12/03/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

Upgrading to version 1.2.10, 1.3.6, 1.4.3, 1.5.1 or 1.6.4 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• CKEditor 5 Premium Features

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.2.0
• 1.2.1
• 1.2.2
• 1.2.3
• 1.2.4
• 1.2.5
• 1.2.6
• 1.2.7
• 1.2.8
• 1.2.9
• 1.3
• 1.3.0
• 1.3.1
• 1.3.2
• 1.3.3
• 1.3.4
• 1.3.5
• 1.4
• 1.4.0
• 1.4.1
• 1.4.2
• 1.5.0
• 1.6.0
• 1.6.1
• 1.6.2
• 1.6.3

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