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CVE

CVE-2026-8445

justhtml before 1.12.0 Sanitizer Bypass via Markdown
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CVE

CVE-2026-8445

justhtml before 1.12.0 Sanitizer Bypass via Markdown

justhtml versions <= 1.11.0 (fixed in 1.12.0) do not sufficiently escape HTML-significant characters (angle brackets) in text nodes when converting a parsed document to Markdown via tomarkdown(). While a small set of Markdown metacharacters are escaped, characters such as < and > are preserved, so untrusted input that is safe in tohtml() — including entity-decoded text (e.g. &lt;script&gt;) or text from RCDATA/RAWTEXT-parsed elements like <title>, <textarea>, <noscript>, and <plaintext> — can be emitted as raw HTML in the Markdown output, enabling a sanitizer bypass and potential cross-site scripting when that output is rendered.

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CVSS Version

Severity
Base Score
CVSS Version
Score Vector
C
H
U
9.3
-
4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
C
H
U
0
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C
H
U
-

Related Resources

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References

https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/8xxx/CVE-2026-8445.json, https://github.com/EmilStenstrom/justhtml/security/advisories/GHSA-3rcm-vjrc-p45j, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-8445, https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/justhtml-before-sanitizer-bypass-via-markdown

Severity

0

CVSS Score
0
10

Basic Information

Base CVSS
0
EPSS Probability
0.00635%
EPSS Percentile
0.48466%
Introduced Version
0
Fix Available
c5185651a443fb806343e6e5b081b49bab588d21

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