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Medium · 5.4 CVE-2026-57531 EUVD-2026-48736GHSA-7jff-jg2j-4x95

Milkdown < 7.21.3 DOM XSS via innerHTML Assignment

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

Description

Milkdown before 7.21.3 contains a DOM cross-site scripting vulnerability in the @milkdown/plugin-emoji package that allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the host application's origin by causing a victim to paste attacker-controlled content. The parseDOM.getAttrs handler stores raw innerHTML of pasted span elements with data-type="emoji" without sanitization, and the toMarkdown runner subsequently assigns this unsanitized value directly to a live DOM element's innerHTML, bypassing the DOMPurify sanitization used in the toDOM path, causing payload execution on every markdown serialization cycle.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Milkdown milkdown < 7.21.3 7.21.3

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