GHSA-22g5-r2x5-97cxMediumCVSS 6.1

showdown allows stored cross-site scripting through table header ID injection

Published
July 7, 2026
Last Modified
August 7, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

showdown contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the parseHeaders function of src/subParsers/makehtml/tables.js that fails to properly escape table header ID attributes. Attackers can inject arbitrary HTML and script-executing SVG elements through double-quote characters in markdown table headers, achieving stored XSS when untrusted markdown is rendered with the default github flavor configuration.

🎯 Affected products1

  • npm/showdown:<= 2.1.0

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