CKEditor Passive Scanner
Summary: The CKEditor Passive Scanner is a Burp Suite extension, version 3.0.0 by Masoud Zivari (code5ecure), that detects CKEditor v4.x and v5.x installations in HTTP responses, extracts version information, and enumerates loaded plugins without sending active requests to the target. It is distributed through PortSwigger's BApp Store, which notes that extensions are written by third-party users of Burp and come with no warranty from PortSwigger as to their quality or usefulness.
What's compelling: A passive scanner that fingerprints CKEditor versions and plugins from ordinary responses gives an attacker the same inventory without touching your systems, so an outdated editor version or a risky plugin is exposed to anyone watching traffic rather than only to someone probing you directly.
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