CVE-2026-41674

xmldom: XML injection through unvalidated DocumentType serialization

State
Published
Severity
8.7 High
Published
May 7, 2026
Updated
Sep 10, 2026
Reserved
Apr 22, 2026

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Description

xmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) `DOMParser` and `XMLSerializer` module. In @xmldom/xmldom prior to versions 0.9.10 and 0.8.13 and xmldom version 0.6.0 and prior, the package serializes DocumentType node fields (internalSubset, publicId, systemId) verbatim without any escaping or validation. When these fields are set programmatically to attacker-controlled strings, XMLSerializer.serializeToString can produce output where the DOCTYPE declaration is terminated early and arbitrary markup appears outside it. This issue has been patched in versions @xmldom/xmldom versions 0.9.10 and 0.8.13.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.08.7 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NGitHub_M
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Nredhat-SADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-91 XML Injection (aka Blind XPath Injection)

Affected Products

ProductVersions
xmldomxmldom
  • xmldom <= 0.6.0Affected
  • @xmldom/xmldom >= 0.9.0, < 0.9.10Affected
  • @xmldom/xmldom < 0.8.13Affected

References

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