CRITICAL 9.3 NVD

CVE-2026-8445

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 doc

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. &lt;script&gt;) 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.

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Published: 2026-08-23 · Source: NVD · Feed updated: 2026-08-23
This critical severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.3 was published on 2026-08-23 via NVD.

Risk Timeline

CVE Disclosed2026-08-23 · -1 days ago

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