CVE-2026-8630

justhtml before 1.12.0 Mutation XSS via Raw Text Elements

State
Published
Severity
5.1 Medium
Published
Aug 23, 2026
Updated
Aug 26, 2026
Reserved
May 14, 2026

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Description

justhtml before 1.12.0 (versions <= 1.11.0) contains a mutation cross-site scripting (mXSS) vulnerability in the serialization of raw-text elements such as <style> and <script>. When a DOM tree is processed by sanitize_dom() using a custom policy that keeps these elements, text nodes inside them are serialized literally without escaping, allowing attacker-controlled text containing the matching closing tag sequence to break out of the raw-text context and inject arbitrary HTML into the serialized output. The default sanitization policy is not affected because it drops the contents of style and script.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.05.1 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:NVulnCheck
3.16.1 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NVulnCheck

Weaknesses

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
justhtmlEmilStenstrom
  • before 1.12.0Affected
  • 1.12.0Not affected

References

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