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Medium · 6.1 CVE-2026-44644 EUVD-2026-37815GHSA-2qv6-9wx5-cwv4

LiquidJS's strip_html filter bypass via newline characters in HTML tags enables XSS

Published Jun 17, 2026 · Updated Jun 18, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

LiquidJS is a Shopify/GitHub Pages compatible template engine written in pure JavaScript. Versions 10.25.7 and below are vulnerable to XSS through a flaw in the strip_html filter logic. The strip_html filter is intended to remove HTML tags from a string before rendering, and is widely used as an XSS sanitizer. The implementation uses a regex whose catch-all branch (<.*?>) does not match line terminators, so any HTML tag containing a \n or \r character passes through unmodified. An attacker who can place a newline inside a tag (e.g. <img\nsrc=x\nonerror=alert(1)>) bypasses sanitization entirely, since browsers treat newlines as whitespace within a tag and execute the resulting onerror/onload/etc. handler. Exploitation is possible for applications that both render attacker-controlled strings via {{ x | strip_html }} to defend against HTML injection and do not separately HTML-escape that output (default behavior — outputEscape is unset by default). This issue has been fixed in version 10.26.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
harttle liquidjs < 10.26.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm liquidjs < 10.26.0 10.26.0 GHSA-2qv6-9wx5-cwv4

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