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High · 8.6 CVE-2026-88058 EUVD-2026-75681GHSA-j3r3-mxqp-r2p4

Angular: SSR XSS via Unescaped Processing Instruction (<?...?>) Nodes in Fallback Raw-Content Elements

Published Sep 10, 2026 · Updated Sep 11, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Angular is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications using TypeScript/JavaScript and other languages. Prior to 20.3.30, 21.2.22, and 22.1.4, Angular server-side rendering (SSR) in @angular/platform-server serializes ProcessingInstruction DOM nodes inside fallback raw-content elements without escaping matching ancestor closing tags. ProcessingInstruction data escaped greater-than characters but left less-than characters untouched and did not inspect fallback ancestors, so data such as a matching closing tag prematurely terminates noscript, iframe, noembed, or noframes containers. The vulnerable nodes cannot be authored through standard Angular templates; reachability requires application or library code using inject(DOCUMENT).createProcessingInstruction with attacker-controlled data or Renderer2 DOM insertion inside a fallback container. In HTML5 RAWTEXT parsing, the premature close causes subsequent sibling elements to be interpreted as live HTML and enables arbitrary JavaScript execution in a victim's browser. This issue is fixed in versions 20.3.30, 21.2.22, and 22.1.4.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
angular angular <= 19.2.25, >= 20.0.0, < 20.3.30, >= 21.0.0, < 21.2.22, >= 22.0.0, < 22.1.4 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 13 angular.js No fix yet —
Debian 12 angular.js No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 angular.js No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS angular.js No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS angular.js No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS angular.js No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS angular.js No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS angular.js No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS angular.js No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm @angular/platform-server >= 22.0.0, < 22.1.4 22.1.4 GHSA-j3r3-mxqp-r2p4
npm @angular/platform-server >= 21.0.0, < 21.2.22 21.2.22 GHSA-j3r3-mxqp-r2p4
npm @angular/platform-server >= 20.0.0, < 20.3.30 20.3.30 GHSA-j3r3-mxqp-r2p4
npm @angular/platform-server <= 19.2.25 — GHSA-j3r3-mxqp-r2p4

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