Manual update of CKEditor Coldfusion 2021

I realize this question (about removing fileupload capabilities from ckeditor) is now several months old, but if you're still interested (@altascene), are you aware first that CF prevents file uploads to CF from that by default? See the file settings.cfm (in [cf]\cfusion\wwwroot\cf_scripts\scripts\ajax\ckeditor\, which has this line:

<cfset settings.AllowUploads = "false">

That defaults to false for CF2021, 2018, and 2016 (CF11 had used fckeditor).

Or if you may mean you want to remove the upload elements from the UI (such as in cftextarea richtext="true"), I'll note first that I don't find it appearing in CF2021, but if you do see it, you should be able to remove it by editing the config.js (in [cf]\cfusion\wwwroot\cf_scripts\scripts\ajax\ckeditor\) and using its removeDialogTabs setting:

config.removeDialogTabs = 'link:upload;image:Upload';

which is discussed a bit more in the ckeditor config docs here.  If that helps (or does not), let us know. If you've moved on and are no longer concerned about the matter, I hope it may help future readers (and I'm open to correction if I have anything wrong).