CVE-2026-48988

markdown-it is a Markdown parser. Versions 14.1.1 and below contain a denial-of-service vulnerability when typographer: true is enabled, due to quadratic On^2 processing in the smartquotes rule. The issue stems from repeatedly modifying strings with replaceAt, which performs On slicing and...

CVE-2026-48988 markdown-it: Quadratic complexity DoS in smartquotes rule via replaceAt string operations

markdown-it is a Markdown parser. Versions 14.1.1 and below contain a denial-of-service vulnerability when typographer: true is enabled, due to quadratic On^2 processing in the smartquotes rule. The issue stems from repeatedly modifying strings with replaceAt, which performs On slicing and...

Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity

Overview org.webjars.npm:markdown-it is a modern pluggable markdown parser. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity through the replaceAt function in the smartquotes rule when processing markdown input with a large number of consecutive quotation mar...

PT-2026-49555

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions markdown-it affected versions not specified Description A quadratic time complexity issue exists in the smartquotes rule when the typographer: true option is enabled. An attacker can provide markdown input containing a large number of...