CVE-2026-65902 PUBLISHED

DOMPurify before 3.4.7 Hook Mutation Pollution via allowedTags

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 23.07.2026 Published: 23.07.2026 Updated: 23.07.2026

DOMPurify before 3.4.7 (affected versions <= 3.4.5) passes direct references to the module-level DEFAULT_ALLOWED_TAGS and DEFAULT_ALLOWED_ATTR sets to the uponSanitizeElement and uponSanitizeAttribute hooks via data.allowedTags / data.allowedAttributes when sanitize is called without an explicit cfg.ALLOWED_TAGS / cfg.ALLOWED_ATTR array. A hook that mutates these fields permanently widens the default allow-lists for the lifetime of the DOMPurify instance, so all subsequent default-config sanitize calls inherit the widened defaults and attacker payloads using the poisoned tag/attribute name survive sanitization. removeAllHooks(), clearConfig(), and passing a fresh cfg do not recover the state; only constructing a new DOMPurify instance does.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
CVSS Score: 5.3

Product Status

Vendor cure53
Product DOMPurify
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 3.4.7 (excl.)
  • Version 3.4.7 is unaffected

Credits

  • offset reporter

References

Problem Types

  • Trust Boundary Violation CWE