CVE-2026-71478

medium

Description

league/commonmark is a PHP library for parsing and rendering CommonMark Markdown. From 1.5.0 until 2.9.0, the AttributesExtension's href and src unsafe-link filter can be bypassed by embedding control bytes, such as a tab, carriage return, line feed, or leading C0 control character, in a javascript: URL that browsers discard before parsing the scheme, causing the browser to still execute the script even when the unsafe-link filter is enabled. This issue is fixed in 2.9.0.

References

https://github.com/thephpleague/commonmark/security/advisories/GHSA-29pj-957v-52mc

https://github.com/thephpleague/commonmark/releases/tag/2.9.0

https://github.com/thephpleague/commonmark/commit/493a5aa7d65754b73846006eaff9c2c4431a8e2c

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-08-06

Updated: 2026-08-06

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00201