# CVE-2026-104250: unstructured: Stored XSS via unescaped HTML generation

- Also known as: GHSA-V5MQ-3XHG-98M9
- Severity: CVSS 6.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.24.1
- Published: 2026-10-13 · Updated: 2026-10-14

## Affected

- Unstructured-IO unstructured: fixed in 0.24.1
- unstructured (PyPI): fixed in 0.24.1

## Description

The unstructured library provides open-source components for ingesting and pre-processing images and text documents, such as PDFs, HTML, Word docs, and many more. Prior to 0.24.1, partition_html(html_parser_version="v2") and the VLM partitioner can preserve untrusted document tags, attributes, text, and link targets in metadata.text_as_html, while elements_to_html() emits the result as an HTML document. The to_html() path in unstructured/documents/ontology.py does not escape output or reject unsafe URL schemes, allowing event-handler attributes, attribute breakout markup, and javascript: links to survive parsing. When the generated HTML or text_as_html is rendered in a browser, attacker-controlled script can execute in the viewer's origin, including in document-ingestion workflows where a privileged reviewer opens submitted content. This issue is fixed in version 0.24.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unstructured-IO unstructured, unstructured, upgrade to a fixed version (0.24.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/security/advisories/GHSA-v5mq-3xhg-98m9
- https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/pull/4394
- https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/commit/cda16b3f2170019be9c6ea5635946fb3eaa2d66f
- https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/releases/tag/0.24.1

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