DOMPurify IN_PLACE Sanitization Bypass via Attached Shadow Root Inside .content

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    "title": "DOMPurify IN_PLACE Sanitization Bypass via Attached Shadow Root Inside .content",
    "summary": "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.",
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        "https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify/releases/tag/3.4.7",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/49xxx/CVE-2026-49978.json",
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