GHSA-h7ww-273w-6cm8High
Mistune: Path Traversal and XSS in Include directive
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
The Include directive in src/mistune/directives/include.py does not validate that the resolved file path stays within the source directory, allowing path traversal via ../ sequences to read arbitrary files.
Additionally, error messages and included file contents are rendered without HTML escaping, leading to XSS even when escape=True.
Affected functions:
- Path resolution (lines 27-31)
block_error()in html.py (line 140)render_html_include()(line 72)
The Include plugin must be explicitly enabled via the plugins parameter.
🎯 Affected products1
- pip/mistune:<= 3.2.0
🔗 References (6)
- https://github.com/lepture/mistune/security/advisories/GHSA-h7ww-273w-6cm8
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-115355
- https://github.com/lepture/mistune/commit/1bef343ade163fc3bb95572b15be720084cdb993
- https://github.com/lepture/mistune/releases/tag/v3.3.0
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/mistune-before-3.3.0-path-traversal-and-xss-via-include-directive
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h7ww-273w-6cm8