PT-2026-44140

Description symfony/dom-crawler provides the Crawler class for navigating HTML/XML documents with CSS/XPath selectors; symfony/browser-kit's HttpBrowser uses it to parse fetched pages. Crawler::addXmlContent sets DOMDocument::$validateOnParse = true before calling loadXML. Setting validateOnParse...

URIjs Hostname spoofing via backslashes in URL

Impact If using affected versions to determine a URL's hostname, the hostname can be spoofed by using a backslash \ character as part of the scheme delimiter, e.g. scheme:/\hostname. If the hostname is used in security decisions, the decision may be incorrect. Depending on library usage and...

dom4j: XML External Entity vulnerability in default SAX parser

dom4j before 2.0.3 and 2.1.x before 2.1.3 allows external DTDs and External Entities by default, which might enable XXE attacks. However, there is popular external documentation from OWASP showing how to enable the safe, non-default behavior in any application that uses dom4j...

Django: the behavior of the underlying HTMLParser leading to DoS

An issue was discovered in Django 1.11.x before 1.11.23, 2.1.x before 2.1.11, and 2.2.x before 2.2.4. Due to the behaviour of the underlying HTMLParser, django.utils.html.striptags would be extremely slow to evaluate certain inputs containing large sequences of nested incomplete HTML entities...