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

> An authentication bypass in the Drupal CKEditor 5 Premium Features module allows attackers to bypass access controls via an alternate path.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 28 Jan 2026
- **Updated:** 29 Jan 2026
- **Also known as:** DRUPAL-CONTRIB-2025-118, GHSA-8479-rrmq-2rhw

## What is CVE-2025-13980?

CVE-2025-13980 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Drupal CKEditor 5 Premium Features, published on 28 Jan 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-288 (Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-13980?

It affects 1 product.


| Package | Ecosystem | Affected | Fixed in |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `drupal/ckeditor5_premium_features` | Packagist:https://packages.drupal.org/8 | All versions | 1.2.10, 1.3.6, 1.4.3, 1.5.1, 1.6.4 |

Products: Cksource Ckeditor 5 Premium Features.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-13980?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

## Is CVE-2025-13980 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-13980 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-13980 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-13980 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Drupal CKEditor 5 Premium Features, published on 28 Jan 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-13980 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Drupal CKEditor 5 Premium Features. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-13980/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-13980/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-13980
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-13980
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-13980

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-13980/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.