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GHSA-r758-8hxw-4845

justhtml: Mutation XSS with custom foreign-namespace sanitization policies

Quick fix

GHSA-r758-8hxw-4845 — justhtml: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'justhtml>=1.14.0'

Details

## Summary

A parser-differential / mutation XSS issue was found in `justhtml` when using a **custom sanitization policy** that preserves foreign namespaces such as SVG or MathML.

Under these custom settings, specially crafted input could sanitize into HTML that looked safe at first, but became unsafe when parsed again by a browser or another HTML parser.

## Impact

This issue does **not** affect the default safe configuration.

You may be affected if you use a custom `SanitizationPolicy` with settings like:

- `drop_foreign_namespaces=False` - allowlisted foreign elements such as MathML or SVG - allowlisted raw-text containers such as `<style>`

In that case, an attacker could inject markup that survives sanitization and turns into active HTML after re-parsing.

## Affected versions

- `justhtml` `<= 1.13.0`

## Fixed version

- Fixed in `1.14.0`

## Workarounds

Until you upgrade:

- keep `drop_foreign_namespaces=True` - avoid allowlisting foreign namespaces for untrusted input - avoid allowlisting raw-text containers such as `<style>` in custom policies

## Notes

The default `JustHTML(..., sanitize=True)` behavior was not found to be vulnerable in this issue.

## Credit

Discovered by JustHTML author during a LLM-based security review of `justhtml`.

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Affected packages

PyPI / justhtml
Introduced in: 1.13.0 Fixed in: 1.14.0
Fix pip install --upgrade 'justhtml>=1.14.0'

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