CVE-2026-65901

DOMPurify through 3.4.6 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability in INPLACE mode that trusts attacker-controlled nodeName on live non-form nodes. Attackers can supply hostile live DOM objects with real script children whose observable nodeName is clobbered to appear as allowed elements,...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Overview dompurify is a DOM-only XSS sanitizer for HTML, MathML and SVG. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting XSS in the INPLACE process when attacker-controlled live DOM nodes are sanitized. An attacker can execute arbitrary scripts in the context of the...

DOMPurify: `IN_PLACE` mode trusts attacker-controlled `nodeName` on live non-form nodes, allowing script retention and XSS via attacker-supplied DOM objects

Summary When DOMPurify.sanitizeroot, INPLACE: true is called on an attacker-supplied live DOM node, DOMPurify still trusts currentNode.nodeName for non-form nodes in the main sanitizeElements pipeline. A real child node whose observable nodeName is attacker-controlled can therefore be misclassifi...