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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD2.1 Low

CVE-2026-48590

Element and Attribute Names Injected Verbatim into XML Output in xml_builder

Description

XML Injection vulnerability in joshnuss xml_builder (XmlBuilder module) allows Content Spoofing, XML Injection. This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/xml_builder.ex and program routines XmlBuilder.generate/1, XmlBuilder.generate/2, XmlBuilder.element/1, XmlBuilder.element/2, XmlBuilder.element/3. Element names, attribute names, and doctype identifiers are interpolated verbatim into the serialized XML output without validation or escaping of structural characters (<, >, ", ', &). An attacker who can influence a name argument (for example, an element name derived from a JSON object key or an HTTP form field name) can inject arbitrary XML markup including extra elements, comments, and event-handler attributes into the output document. This issue affects xml_builder: from 0.0.1 before 2.4.1.

Affected products

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

joshnuss xml_builder

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0.0.1 to < 2.4.1affected
pkg:hex/xml_builder

joshnuss xml_builder

Default version status: unaffected

  • 9fb49131ad3ee146a4c9db9bc175bdffe32e30a0 to < d5c0aec32a8eecbb440fb9bbb0f59d4d188d5859affected
pkg:github/joshnuss/xml_builder

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