CVE-2026-8445
Critical · CVSS 9.8- CVSS
- 9.8
- nvd
- EPSS
- 0.64%
- 49th pct
- KEV
- No
- Class
- oss containerizable
- CWE-79
Description
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. <script>) 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.
Affected packages
| PyPI | justhtml | 0 → 1.12.0 |
References
Status: profiled · ingested 2026-08-26T18:00:49.000Z