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

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.

Published: 2026-01-28 Last update: 2026-02-12 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Analyzed，CVE State: published
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CVE-2025-13980 is rated Low Risk (27/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.05%). Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-13980

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-03-01 0.02% 0.05% +0.03%
2 2026-01-29 — 0.02% —

Full EPSS history (2 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-13980

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.3 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 3.9 1.4 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-13980

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-13980

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
cksource ckeditor_5_premium_features < 1.2.10 cpe:2.3:a:cksource:ckeditor_5_premium_features:*:*:*:*:*:drupal:*:*
cksource ckeditor_5_premium_features >= 1.3.0, < 1.3.6 cpe:2.3:a:cksource:ckeditor_5_premium_features:*:*:*:*:*:drupal:*:*
cksource ckeditor_5_premium_features >= 1.4.0, < 1.4.3 cpe:2.3:a:cksource:ckeditor_5_premium_features:*:*:*:*:*:drupal:*:*
cksource ckeditor_5_premium_features >= 1.6.0, < 1.6.4 cpe:2.3:a:cksource:ckeditor_5_premium_features:*:*:*:*:*:drupal:*:*
cksource ckeditor_5_premium_features 1.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:cksource:ckeditor_5_premium_features:1.5.0:*:*:*:*:drupal:*:*

References for CVE-2025-13980

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