MEDIUM 6.1

GHSA-cr32-g25g-vxjj

showdown metadata title handling allows cross-site scripting

Details

showdown contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability in metadata title handling that allows attackers to inject arbitrary HTML and JavaScript. When completeHTMLDocument option is enabled, unescaped less-than and greater-than characters in markdown frontmatter metadata are inserted directly into HTML title tags, enabling attackers to break out of the title context and execute malicious scripts in the rendered page.

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Affected packages

npm / showdown

Introduced in: 0

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-59711 [ADVISORY]
https://github.com/showdownjs/showdown/issues/1047 [WEB]
https://github.com/showdownjs/showdown/commit/184a3e4e97f90e075c4512f2c4c06dcf655e91b7 [WEB]
https://github.com/showdownjs/showdown [PACKAGE]
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/showdown-cross-site-scripting-via-unescaped-metadata-title-in-completehtmldocument [WEB]