CVE-2024-45400: Mlewand Open Link

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ckeditor-plugin-openlink is a plugin for the CKEditor JavaScript text editor that extends the context menu with a possibility to open a link in a new tab. A vulnerability in versions of the plugin prior to 1.0.7 allowed a user to execute JavaScript code by abusing the link href attribute. The fix is available starting with version 1.0.7.

Affected products

• Mlewand Open Link: before 1.0.7 (fixed in 1.0.7)

Published 2024-09-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.