GHSA-hxh3-vqpv-xpqv
hono/jsx renders plain strings unescaped in boundary components, leading to XSS
Quick fix
GHSA-hxh3-vqpv-xpqv — hono: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
npm install hono@4.13.7Details
### Summary
`hono/jsx` does not HTML-escape a plain string placed directly as a child or `fallback` of `Suspense` or `ErrorBoundary`, as the only child of a `Context.Provider`, or as the root value of `renderToString()` / `renderToReadableStream()` from `hono/jsx/dom/server`. Such a string is emitted as markup instead of text.
### Details
These paths stringify their input and treat the result as already-escaped HTML, so a plain string passes through unchanged. Notable cases:
- `Suspense`: a string child, or a string `fallback` while a child suspends. With streaming, the fallback reaches the browser in the initial chunk. - `ErrorBoundary`: a string child alongside an asynchronous sibling. The all-synchronous case was fixed in 4.11.7 (GHSA-9r54-q6cx-xmh5). - `Context.Provider`: a single string child. Multiple children are escaped. - `hono/jsx/dom/server`: a string, or an array containing strings, passed as the root.
A lone `{children}` forwarded by a wrapper component is enough to reach these paths. Strings wrapped in an element, values from `raw()` or the `html` helper, and client-side rendering with `hono/jsx/dom` are not affected.
### Impact
An attacker who controls a string rendered in an affected position can inject arbitrary HTML into the server-rendered page, leading to cross-site scripting under the application's origin.
This issue affects applications that render untrusted strings directly in one of the positions above during server-side rendering.
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References
- https://github.com/honojs/hono/security/advisories/GHSA-hxh3-vqpv-xpqv[WEB]
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-93981[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/honojs/hono/commit/2b8ed402cdab6dfc5e829b480806dcd8db94161e[WEB]
- https://github.com/honojs/hono[PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/honojs/hono/releases/tag/v4.13.7[WEB]
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/hono-jsx-before-4.13.7-cross-site-scripting-via-unescaped-strings[WEB]