Medium
Security advisory
DOMPurify before 2.0.1 allows XSS because of innerHTML mutation XSS (mXSS) for an SVG element or a MATH element, as demonstrated by Chrome and Safari.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2019-16728
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:42 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
DOMPurify before 2.0.1 allows XSS because of innerHTML mutation XSS (mXSS) for an SVG element or a MATH element, as demonstrated by Chrome and Safari.
osv:CVE-2019-16728
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-16728",
"method": "structured",
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"title": "CVE-2019-16728",
"summary": "DOMPurify before 2.0.1 allows XSS because of innerHTML mutation XSS (mXSS) for an SVG element or a MATH element, as demonstrated by Chrome and Safari.",
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:57.302877293Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00029.html",
"https://research.securitum.com/dompurify-bypass-using-mxss/"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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