CVE-2026-71478

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.

Scoring

Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS base score
6.1
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS probability
0.20%
CWE
CWE-79, CWE-86, CWE-692
Published
2026-08-06
Last modified
2026-08-07

Affected products

Weakness type

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