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. <script>) 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
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| EmilStenstrom | justhtml | < 1.12.0 | 1.12.0 |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | justhtml | < 1.12.0 | 1.12.0 | GHSA-3rcm-vjrc-p45j |
References
- GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-3rcm-vjrc-p45j) vendor-advisory
- VulnCheck Advisory: justhtml before 1.12.0 Sanitizer Bypass via Markdown third-party-advisory