CVE-2026-8445 – justhtml before 1.12.0 Sanitizer Bypass via Markdown

​CVE ID :CVE-2026-8445

Published : Aug. 23, 2026, 2:16 p.m. | 4 hours, 29 minutes ago

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 , , , and — can be emitted as raw HTML in the Markdown output, enabling a sanitizer bypass and potential cross-site scripting when that output is rendered.

Severity: 9.8 | CRITICAL

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