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Medium · 6.1 CVE-2026-8630 EUVD-2026-64660GHSA-qvc2-mg72-jjhxGHSA-rc3v-3cc7-h7h5

justhtml before 1.12.0 Mutation XSS via Raw Text Elements

Published Aug 23, 2026 · Updated Aug 26, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

justhtml before 1.12.0 (versions <= 1.11.0) contains a mutation cross-site scripting (mXSS) vulnerability in the serialization of raw-text elements such as <style> and <script>. When a DOM tree is processed by sanitize_dom() using a custom policy that keeps these elements, text nodes inside them are serialized literally without escaping, allowing attacker-controlled text containing the matching closing tag sequence to break out of the raw-text context and inject arbitrary HTML into the serialized output. The default sanitization policy is not affected because it drops the contents of style and script.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
EmilStenstrom justhtml < 1.12.0 1.12.0

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI justhtml < 1.12.0 1.12.0 GHSA-qvc2-mg72-jjhx

References