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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-55090 EUVD-2026-62734GHSA-2jp7-wwpg-3p9w

Etherpad: Stored XSS in HTML export via unescaped attribute-pool values

Published Aug 19, 2026 · Updated Aug 20, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Etherpad is a real-time collaborative editor. Prior to 3.3.0, getHTMLFromAtext in src/node/utils/ExportHtml.ts interpolates values from the exportHtmlAdditionalTagsWithData plugin hook into span data attributes without HTML attribute escaping. A pad editor can place an attacker-controlled value into the attribute pool through moveOpsToNewPool and AttributePool.putAttrib. When a bundled plugin such as ep_font_color or ep_font_size registers the hook, opening the resulting HTML export causes the value to execute as stored cross-site scripting in the Etherpad origin. This issue is fixed in version 3.3.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ether etherpad < 3.3.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm ep_etherpad-lite < 3.3.0 3.3.0 GHSA-2jp7-wwpg-3p9w

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