CVE-2026-47080 PUBLISHED

CDATA Section Breakout via Unsanitised ]]> in xml_builder

Assigner: EEF
Reserved: 18.05.2026 Published: 21.08.2026 Updated: 21.08.2026

XML Injection vulnerability in joshnuss xml_builder (XmlBuilder module) allows Content Spoofing, XML Injection.

This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/xml_builder.ex and program routines XmlBuilder.generate/1, XmlBuilder.generate/2, XmlBuilder.escape/1.

The escape/1 clause for {:cdata, data} in lib/xml_builder.ex concatenates data verbatim between the CDATA opener without rewriting or splitting on the embedded ]]> sequence. Because CDATA sections have no internal escape mechanism, the only safe way to embed arbitrary bytes is to split on ]]> and emit adjacent CDATA sections. An attacker who can supply input containing ]]> closes the CDATA section early; any bytes that follow are parsed as ordinary XML markup by downstream consumers, allowing injection of arbitrary elements, text, or entity references into the output document.

This issue affects xml_builder: from 0.0.7 before 2.4.1.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N
CVSS Score: 2.1

Product Status

Vendor joshnuss
Product xml_builder
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0.0.7 to 2.4.1 (excl.)
Vendor joshnuss
Product xml_builder
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 26766f884ed19adee1563522c7afb5f056a6f3b5 to bfb1ada071ccc1e384c30f782197ca5154106706 (excl.)

Credits

  • Peter Ullrich finder
  • Joshua Nussbaum remediation developer
  • Jonatan Männchen / EEF coordinator

References

Problem Types

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

Impacts

  • CAPEC-250 XML Injection