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Medium · 5.4 CVE-2026-57530 EUVD-2026-48735GHSA-f8jw-52vm-m867

Milkdown < 7.21.3 Stored XSS via javascript: URL in link href

Published Jul 24, 2026 · Updated Jul 25, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

Milkdown before 7.21.3 contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the @milkdown/preset-commonmark and @milkdown/components packages that allows attackers with document write access to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the browser context of any user who opens the document or clicks a rendered link. The parseMarkdown runner stores raw URL values from the remark AST as href mark attributes without URL scheme validation, and the ineffective DOMPurify.sanitize call in edit-view.ts treats the bare URL string as a text node and returns it unchanged, allowing javascript: payloads to pass through the link-tooltip preview component and read-only mode anchor elements unmodified.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Milkdown milkdown < 7.21.3 7.21.3

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