GHSA-j8r4-32c5-33rcMediumCVSS 6.1

xhtml-purifier has HTML attribute-injection (sanitizer bypass) that leads to XSS

Published
September 24, 2026
Last Modified
September 24, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

xhtml-purifier does not HTML-entity-encode attribute values when serializing its sanitized output. In attributeString() (XHTMLPurifier.js, around line 148) the attribute value is concatenated directly into a double-quoted attribute without encoding. As a result, an attacker-controlled value in any allowed attribute (class, style, title, alt, src, href) can include a double-quote character to break out of the attribute and inject an additional attribute, such as a JavaScript event handler (for example onmouseover or onerror). The injected handler survives sanitization and executes when the output is rendered, which is a sanitizer bypass leading to cross-site scripting. The fix HTML-entity-encodes attribute values before serialization.

🎯 Affected products1

  • npm/xhtml-purifier:<= 0.4.1

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