CVE-2026-44897 MEDIUM

CVE-2026-44897: Mistune Heading ID Attribute Injection XSS

Vendor Lepture
Product mistune
Weakness CWE-79 · XSS
Published May 26, 2026
Last update June 1, 2026

CVSS base score

6.1/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Mistune is a Python Markdown parser with renderers and plugins. Prior to 3.2.1, HTMLRenderer.heading() builds the opening <hN> tag by string-concatenating the id attribute value directly into the HTML — with no call to escape(), safe_entity(), or any other sanitisation function. A double-quote character " in the id value terminates the attribute, allowing an attacker to inject arbitrary additional attributes (event handlers, src=, href=, etc.) into the heading element. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.2.1.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

May 26, 2026 CVE published
June 1, 2026 Record updated