CVE-2026-5389

justhtml versions before 1.13.0 contain a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the to_markdown() function when serializing attacker-controlled pre content. Attackers can place backticks inside sanitized pre elements to break out of fixed-length code fences, allowing raw HTML to execute when the generated Markdown is rendered by CommonMark or GFM-style renderers.

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Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS base score
6.1
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
EPSS probability
0.19%
CWE
CWE-80
Published
2026-08-23
Last modified
2026-08-24

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