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Critical · 9.8 CVE-2026-8445 EUVD-2026-64659GHSA-3rcm-vjrc-p45jGHSA-wf6m-786j-gxrr

justhtml before 1.12.0 Sanitizer Bypass via Markdown

Published Aug 23, 2026 · Updated Aug 24, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

justhtml versions <= 1.11.0 (fixed in 1.12.0) do not sufficiently escape HTML-significant characters (angle brackets) in text nodes when converting a parsed document to Markdown via to_markdown(). While a small set of Markdown metacharacters are escaped, characters such as < and > are preserved, so untrusted input that is safe in to_html() — including entity-decoded text (e.g. &lt;script&gt;) or text from RCDATA/RAWTEXT-parsed elements like <title>, <textarea>, <noscript>, and <plaintext> — can be emitted as raw HTML in the Markdown output, enabling a sanitizer bypass and potential cross-site scripting when that output is rendered.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
EmilStenstrom justhtml < 1.12.0 1.12.0

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI justhtml < 1.12.0 1.12.0 GHSA-3rcm-vjrc-p45j

References