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Medium · 6.1 CVE-2026-44898 EUVD-2026-31995GHSA-6269-cqxg-mhhvPYSEC-2026-2208

Mistune TOC Anchor Injection XSS

Published May 26, 2026 · Updated May 27, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Mistune is a Python Markdown parser with renderers and plugins. Prior to 3.2.1, render_toc_ul() builds a <ul> table-of-contents tree from a list of (level, id, text) tuples. Both the id value (used as href="#<id>") and the text value (used as the visible link label) are inserted into <a> tags via a plain Python format string — with no HTML escaping applied to either value. When heading IDs are derived from user-supplied heading text (the standard use-case for readable slug anchors), an attacker can craft a heading whose text breaks out of the href="#..." attribute context, injecting arbitrary HTML tags including <script> blocks directly into the rendered TOC. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.2.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
lepture mistune < 3.2.1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 mistune No fix yet —
Debian 13 mistune No fix yet —
Debian 12 mistune No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 mistune +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS mistune +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 mistune +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS mistune +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS mistune +1 No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS mistune No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS mistune No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS mistune No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 3 python-mistune 2.0.5-150400.11.8.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2949-1

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 python-mistune 3.2.1-1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI mistune >= 3.2.0, < 3.2.1 3.2.1 GHSA-6269-cqxg-mhhv
PyPI mistune < 3.2.1 3.2.1 PYSEC-2026-2208

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