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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.3 Medium

CVE-2026-104477

Showdown through 2.1.0 XSS via unescaped quote in href and src attributes

Description

Showdown through 2.1.0 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the makehtml link and image subparsers, which fail to escape double quotes in destination URLs placed into href and src attributes. Attackers can craft markdown links or images containing a double quote followed by onerror or onmouseover handlers to execute script when victims view rendered HTML.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

showdownjs showdown

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to ≤ 2.1.0affected
pkg:npm/showdown

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