Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 24, 2026· Updated Jul 25, 2026
Milkdown < 7.21.3 DOM XSS via innerHTML Assignment
CVE-2026-57531
Description
Milkdown before 7.21.3 contains a DOM cross-site scripting vulnerability in the @milkdown/plugin-emoji package that allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the host application's origin by causing a victim to paste attacker-controlled content. The parseDOM.getAttrs handler stores raw innerHTML of pasted span elements with data-type="emoji" without sanitization, and the toMarkdown runner subsequently assigns this unsanitized value directly to a live DOM element's innerHTML, bypassing the DOMPurify sanitization used in the toDOM path, causing payload execution on every markdown serialization cycle.
Affected products
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References
5- github.com/Milkdown/milkdown/commit/db1ae721854a0ab2f188b83cf8695702966640f1mitrepatch
- github.com/Milkdown/milkdown/pull/2410mitreissue-trackingpatch
- github.com/Milkdown/milkdown/releases/tag/v7.21.3mitrerelease-notespatch
- www.vulncheck.com/advisories/milkdown-dom-xss-via-innerhtml-assignmentmitrethird-party-advisory
- www.npmjs.com/package/@milkdown/plugin-emojimitreproduct
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