CVE-2026-61824

high

Description

Defuddle cleans up HTML pages. Prior to 0.19.1, site extractors interpolate page-derived image alt and src values, og:image values, and video descriptions into HTML strings without context-appropriate escaping, and buildExtractorResponse() returns this contentHtml without the main pipeline's DOM-based sanitization. The affected paths include src/extractors/x-article.ts, src/extractors/substack.ts, and src/extractors/youtube.ts. A malicious page or attacker-controlled content on a matching domain can inject event-handler attributes or javascript URLs that execute when a victim or downstream application renders the extracted HTML. This issue is fixed in version 0.19.1.

References

https://github.com/kepano/defuddle/security/advisories/GHSA-jg4p-g6xj-4qmf

https://github.com/kepano/defuddle/releases/tag/0.19.1

https://github.com/kepano/defuddle/pull/326

https://github.com/kepano/defuddle/commit/baf2eaef61d334ef595b28c89e5c5e89e52daf7f

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-08-21

Updated: 2026-08-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:P/A:N

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.2

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

Severity: High