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CVE-2026-65902

MEDIUM Exploitation: PoC
6.1
CVSS 3.1
Description
DOMPurify before 3.4.7 (affected versions <= 3.4.5) passes direct references to the module-level DEFAULT_ALLOWED_TAGS and DEFAULT_ALLOWED_ATTR sets to the uponSanitizeElement and uponSanitizeAttribute hooks via data.allowedTags / data.allowedAttributes when sanitize is called without an explicit cfg.ALLOWED_TAGS / cfg.ALLOWED_ATTR array. A hook that mutates these fields permanently widens the default allow-lists for the lifetime of the DOMPurify instance, so all subsequent default-config sanitize calls inherit the widened defaults and attacker payloads using the poisoned tag/attribute name survive sanitization. removeAllHooks(), clearConfig(), and passing a fresh cfg do not recover the state; only constructing a new DOMPurify instance does.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-65902
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
VulnCheck
Reserved
2026-07-23 11:03 UTC
Published
2026-07-23 13:16 UTC
Last updated
2026-07-23 13:58 UTC
Primary CWE
CWE-501
Trust Boundary Violation
Vendor / Product
cure53 / DOMPurify
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

6.1 MEDIUM CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC — CISA Coordinator
Exploitation
PoC
Automatable
no
Tech. Impact
partial
Affected products (1)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
cure53 DOMPurify 0 < 3.4.7, 3.4.7
Weakness (CWE)
CWESourceDescription
CWE-501 cna Trust Boundary Violation
CVSS scores (2)
ScoreSeverityVersionSourceVector
6.1 MEDIUM 3.1 cna CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
5.3 MEDIUM 4.0 cna CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
References (3)
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