CVE-2026-57531

MEDIUM

Milkdown < 7.21.3 DOM XSS via innerHTML Assignment

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

Milkdown before 7.21.3 contains a DOM cross-site scripting vulnerability in the @milkdown/plugin-emoji package that allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the host application's origin by causing a victim to paste attacker-controlled content. The parseDOM.getAttrs handler stores raw innerHTML of pasted span elements with data-type="emoji" without sanitization, and the toMarkdown runner subsequently assigns this unsanitized value directly to a live DOM element's innerHTML, bypassing the DOMPurify sanitization used in the toDOM path, causing payload execution on every markdown serialization cycle.

References (5)

Core 5

Scores

CVSS v3 5.4
EPSS 0.0025
EPSS Percentile 16.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-79
Status published
Products (1)
Milkdown/milkdown < 7.21.3
Published Jul 24, 2026
Tracked Since Jul 25, 2026