๐Ÿ” CVE Alert

CVE-2026-57531

MEDIUM 5.4

Milkdown < 7.21.3 DOM XSS via innerHTML Assignment

CVSS Score
5.4
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

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.

CWE CWE-79
Vendor milkdown
Product milkdown
Published Jul 24, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

Affected Versions

Milkdown / milkdown
0 < 7.21.3

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
github.com: https://github.com/Milkdown/milkdown/releases/tag/v7.21.3 github.com: https://github.com/Milkdown/milkdown/pull/2410 github.com: https://github.com/Milkdown/milkdown/commit/db1ae721854a0ab2f188b83cf8695702966640f1 npmjs.com: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@milkdown/plugin-emoji vulncheck.com: https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/milkdown-dom-xss-via-innerhtml-assignment

Credits

Katriel Moses