UnratedFix available
lxml 6.1.1
Type: patchSources: lxml
lxml 6.1.1 fixes a URL bypass issue involving missing xlink:href recognition and ships Linux and Windows wheels with libxslt versions that fix two CVEs.
- Products
- libxslt, lxml
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.1.43, 1.1.45, 6.1.1
- CVEs
- CVE-2025-11731, CVE-2025-7424
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- CVE-2025-11731, CVE-2025-7424
- Updated in this feed
- 29 Oct 2026, 03:58 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
lxml 6.1.1 fixes a URL bypass issue involving missing xlink:href recognition and ships Linux and Windows wheels with libxslt versions that fix two CVEs.
6.1.1 (2026-05-18) ================== Bugs fixed ---------- * The known link attributes in ``lxml.html.defs.link_attrs`` were missing ``xlink:href``, which can be used for URL bypass attacks in embedded SVG/MathML/etc. content. GHSA-4jhm-jv67-739f * The Linux wheels use a patched libxslt 1.1.43, fixing CVE-2025-7424 and CVE-2025-11731. * The Windows wheels use libxslt 1.1.45, fixing CVE-2025-7424 and CVE-2025-11731.
lxml
Fixed versions: 6.1.1
libxslt
Fixed versions: 1.1.43, 1.1.45
Complete source record
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