Medium
Security advisory
HtmlSanitizer is a .NET library for cleaning HTML fragments and documents from constructs that can lead to XSS attacks. In HtmlSanitizer before version 5.0.372, there is a possible XSS bypass if style tag is allowed. If you have explicitly allowed the `
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-26293
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:09 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
HtmlSanitizer is a .NET library for cleaning HTML fragments and documents from constructs that can lead to XSS attacks. In HtmlSanitizer before version 5.0.372, there is a possible XSS bypass if style tag is allowed. If you have explicitly allowed the `
osv:CVE-2020-26293
Complete source record
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