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node-dompurify — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2026-49978

DOMPurify is a DOM-only cross-site scripting sanitizer for HTML, MathML, and SVG. Prior to 3.4.7, DOMPurify IN_PLACE sanitization could skip shadow contents attached to an element inside .content, allowing attacker-controlled markup such as event handlers, JavaScript URLs, or scripts to survive and execute when an application cloned and inserted the sanitized template. This issue is fixed in version 3.4.7.

Products
node-dompurify
Affected versions
2.4.1+dfsg+~2.4.0-1, 2.4.1+dfsg+~2.4.0-2, 2.4.1+dfsg+~2.4.0-2+deb12u1, 3.0.9+dfsg+~3.0.5-1, 3.1.6+dfsg+~3.0.5-1, 3.1.7+dfsg+~3.0.5-1, 3.1.7+dfsg+~3.0.5-2, 3.2.5+dfsg-1, 3.3.2+dfsg-1, 3.3.3+dfsg-1, 3.3.3+dfsg-2, 3.4.1+dfsg-1, 3.4.12+dfsg-1, 3.4.13+dfsg-1, 3.4.13+dfsg-2, 3.4.16+dfsg-1, 3.4.2+dfsg-1, 3.4.5+dfsg-1
Fixed versions
3.4.12+dfsg-1
CVEs
CVE-2026-49978
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 09:51 UTC · Revision 2

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-49978

core-osv · Original source

Published 14 Jul 2026, 21:17 UTC

DOMPurify is a DOM-only cross-site scripting sanitizer for HTML, MathML, and SVG. Prior to 3.4.7, DOMPurify IN_PLACE sanitization could skip shadow contents attached to an element inside .content, allowing attacker-controlled markup such as event handlers, JavaScript URLs, or scripts to survive and execute when an application cloned and inserted the sanitized template. This issue is fixed in version 3.4.7.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2026-49978

node-dompurify

Fixed versions: Not specified

node-dompurify

Fixed versions: Not specified

node-dompurify

Fixed versions: 3.4.12+dfsg-1

Complete source record
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