GHSA-j8r4-32c5-33rc
xhtml-purifier has HTML attribute-injection (sanitizer bypass) that leads to XSS
Quick fix
GHSA-j8r4-32c5-33rc — xhtml-purifier: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
npm install xhtml-purifier@0.4.3Details
xhtml-purifier does not HTML-entity-encode attribute values when serializing its sanitized output. In attributeString() (XHTMLPurifier.js, around line 148) the attribute value is concatenated directly into a double-quoted attribute without encoding. As a result, an attacker-controlled value in any allowed attribute (class, style, title, alt, src, href) can include a double-quote character to break out of the attribute and inject an additional attribute, such as a JavaScript event handler (for example onmouseover or onerror). The injected handler survives sanitization and executes when the output is rendered, which is a sanitizer bypass leading to cross-site scripting. The fix HTML-entity-encodes attribute values before serialization.
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References
- https://github.com/cstigler/node-xhtml-purifier/security/advisories/GHSA-j8r4-32c5-33rc[WEB]
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-61784[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/cstigler/node-xhtml-purifier/pull/6[WEB]
- https://github.com/cstigler/node-xhtml-purifier/commit/21d461ad23e7bc9b3073693d5b51b9b8662044d3[WEB]
- https://github.com/cstigler/node-xhtml-purifier[PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/cstigler/node-xhtml-purifier/releases/tag/v0.4.3[WEB]