CVE-2026-57531 MEDIUM

CVE-2026-57531: Milkdown < 7.21.3 DOM XSS via innerHTML Assignment

Vendor Milkdown
Product milkdown
Weakness CWE-79 · XSS
Published July 24, 2026
Last update July 24, 2026

CVSS base score

5.1/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction
Confidentiality
Integrity

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Milkdown before 7.21.3 contains a DOM cross-site scripting vulnerability in the @milkdown/plugin-emoji package that allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the host application's origin by causing a victim to paste attacker-controlled content. The parseDOM.getAttrs handler stores raw innerHTML of pasted span elements with data-type="emoji" without sanitization, and the toMarkdown runner subsequently assigns this unsanitized value directly to a live DOM element's innerHTML, bypassing the DOMPurify sanitization used in the toDOM path, causing payload execution on every markdown serialization cycle.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

July 24, 2026 CVE published

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