CVE-2026-41674

HIGH

xmldom: XML injection through unvalidated DocumentType serialization

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

xmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) `DOMParser` and `XMLSerializer` module. In @xmldom/xmldom prior to versions 0.9.10 and 0.8.13 and xmldom version 0.6.0 and prior, the package serializes DocumentType node fields (internalSubset, publicId, systemId) verbatim without any escaping or validation. When these fields are set programmatically to attacker-controlled strings, XMLSerializer.serializeToString can produce output where the DOCTYPE declaration is terminated early and arbitrary markup appears outside it. This issue has been patched in versions @xmldom/xmldom versions 0.9.10 and 0.8.13.

Scores

CVSS v4 8.7
EPSS 0.0002
EPSS Percentile 5.8%
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-91
Status published
Products (6)
npm/xmldom 0 - 0.6.0npm
xmldom/xmldom 0 - 0.8.13npm
xmldom/xmldom 0.9.0 - 0.9.10npm
xmldom/xmldom @xmldom/xmldom < 0.8.13
xmldom/xmldom @xmldom/xmldom >= 0.9.0, < 0.9.10
xmldom/xmldom xmldom <= 0.6.0
Published May 07, 2026
Tracked Since May 07, 2026