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Medium · 4.3 CVE-2026-59728 EUVD-2026-49584GHSA-8j5q-mfj2-5q9q

@astrojs/rss: XML Injection via Unescaped RSS Feed Fields

Published Jul 27, 2026 · Updated Jul 28, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Astro is a web framework for content-driven websites. In versions 1.0.0 through 4.0.18, the source.title and enclosure.type item fields in packages/astro-rss/src/index.ts are interpolated directly into XML template strings without XML-character escaping before being parsed by fast-xml-parser. Both fields are validated only as z.string(), placing no restriction on XML special characters. An attacker who controls these values can inject arbitrary XML into the generated RSS feed: a value containing " can break out of an attribute (as with enclosure.type), and a value containing </source> can close an element early and inject additional nodes (as with source.title). This corrupts feed structure, injects false metadata (for example, a fake <link> pointing to a malicious URL), and can cause feed readers to misparse or display attacker-controlled content. In SSR mode (output: 'server'), the poisoned feed is served on every request to all subscribers. This issue has been fixed in version 4.0.19.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
withastro astro >= 1.0.0, < 4.0.19 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm @astrojs/rss >= 1.0.0, < 4.0.19 4.0.19 GHSA-8j5q-mfj2-5q9q

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