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...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

markdown-it is vulnerable to Denial of Service DoS. The vulnerability is due to quadratic-time processing in the smartquotes rule when typographer: true is enabled, which allows an attacker to supply specially crafted markdown containing consecutive quotation marks and consume excessive CPU...

GHSA-6V5V-WF23-FMFQ markdown-it: Quadratic complexity DoS in smartquotes rule via replaceAt string operations

Summary A quadratic time complexity vulnerability exists in markdown-it's smartquotes rule enabled via the typographer: true option. An attacker can craft a markdown input consisting of consecutive quotation marks that causes the parser to consume excessive CPU time, leading to denial of service...