Milkdown < 7.21.3 Stored XSS via javascript: URL in link href
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.1epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 93% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Milkdown before 7.21.3 contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the @milkdown/preset-commonmark and @milkdown/components packages that allows attackers with document write access to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the browser context of any user who opens the document or clicks a rendered link. The parseMarkdown runner stores raw URL values from the remark AST as href mark attributes without URL scheme validation, and the ineffective DOMPurify.sanitize call in edit-view.ts treats the bare URL string as a text node and returns it unchanged, allowing javascript: payloads to pass through the link-tooltip preview component and read-only mode anchor elements unmodified.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
Affected products
Milkdown · milkdownReferences
https://github.com/Milkdown/milkdown/commit/db1ae721854a0ab2f188b83cf8695702966640f1https://github.com/Milkdown/milkdown/pull/2410https://github.com/Milkdown/milkdown/releases/tag/v7.21.3https://www.npmjs.com/package/@milkdown/componentshttps://www.npmjs.com/package/@milkdown/preset-commonmarkhttps://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/milkdown-stored-xss-via-javascript-url-in-link-href