# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-25299"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-20T19:23:03.013Z"
updatedAt: "2025-02-20T19:47:33.534Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:29.455Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-25299"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-25299.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-25299"
title: "Cross-site scripting (XSS) in the real-time collaboration package"
summary: "CKEditor 5 is a modern JavaScript rich-text editor with an MVC architecture. During a recent internal audit, a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in the CKEditor 5 real-time collaboration package. This vulnerability affects user markers, which represent users' positions within the document. It can lead to unauthorized JavaScript code execution, which might happen with a very specific editor and token endpoint configuration. This vulnerability affects only installations with Real-time collaborative editing enabled. The problem has been recognized and patched. The fix is available in version 44.2.1 (and above). Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"@ckeditor/ckeditor5-real-time-collaboration: \u003e= 41.3.0, \u003c 44.2.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"ckeditor5-premium-features:  \u003e= 42.0.0, \u003c 44.2.1","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"ckeditor","product":"ckeditor5"}]

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