CVE-2026-6827 PUBLISHED

justhtml before 1.17.0 Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 21.04.2026 Published: 23.08.2026 Updated: 23.08.2026

justhtml before 1.17.0 contains multiple security issues in sanitization, serialization, and programmatic DOM handling. When custom policies preserve foreign namespaces (SVG/MathML), dangerous content such as HTML integration points (SVG <foreignObject>, MathML <annotation-xml encoding="text/html">) and mutation-XSS parser-differential payloads could survive sanitization and become active HTML after reparse; SVG filter="url(...)" and preserved <style> could leave resource-loading CSS (@import, background-image:url()). Programmatic script/style/Comment nodes could serialize into active markup. Additional hardening fixes address sanitize-pipeline cache mutation and DOM parent/child cycles that could cause infinite loops. Most issues affect advanced or custom configurations rather than the default JustHTML(..., sanitize=True) safe path.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
CVSS Score: 5.1

Product Status

Vendor EmilStenstrom
Product justhtml
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 1.16.0 (excl.)
  • Version 1.16.0 is unaffected

Credits

  • EmilStenstrom coordinator

References

Problem Types

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