CVE-2026-83616 (GCVE-0-2026-83616)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-01 14:45
Modified
2026-09-01 15:18
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-91 - XML Injection (aka Blind XPath Injection)
Summary
xmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) DOMParser and XMLSerializer module. Prior to @xmldom/xmldom versions 0.8.15 and 0.9.12, and in xmldom version 0.6.0 and earlier, Document.createProcessingInstruction(target, data) in lib/dom.js accepts an unvalidated target, while the requireWellFormed: true serializer checks only for a colon and the reserved case-insensitive xml name on 0.9.x and performs no target check on 0.8.x. Because serialization emits <?target data?>, a target containing >, ?, whitespace, or another invalid XML-name character can break the processing-instruction boundary and inject XML structure. This issue is fixed in @xmldom/xmldom versions 0.8.15 and 0.9.12; no fixed version is available for xmldom.
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Impacted products
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