# CVE-2026-113650: ApostropheCMS sanitize-html: unbounded recursion when re-sanitizing the fallback of a discarded iframe (stack overflow, nestingLimit not enforced)

- Also known as: GHSA-C9RX-X947-FP3H
- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.34.0, 2.18.1
- Published: 2026-10-20 · Updated: 2026-10-28

## Affected

- apostrophecms apostrophe: fixed in 4.34.0
- apostrophecms sanitize-html: from 2.18.0, fixed in 2.18.1
- sanitize-html (npm): from 2.18.0, fixed in 2.18.1

## Description

ApostropheCMS is an open-source Node.js content management system. In sanitize-html 2.18.0, when an <iframe> is not allowed and disallowedTagsMode is 'discard' (the defaults), its raw-text content is re-sanitized by a recursive call to sanitizeHtml(text, options). The recursion has no bound and starts each nested call with a fresh state. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.18.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on apostrophecms apostrophe, apostrophecms sanitize-html, sanitize-html, upgrade to a fixed version (4.34.0, 2.18.1) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe/security/advisories/GHSA-c9rx-x947-fp3h
- https://github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe/commit/06e4b377f3c360f9e89c32dccd7e505ad5ddf498
- https://github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe/commit/40b989b1a9dd23d30029b8ce7668634265cfe5ea
- https://github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe/releases/tag/sanitize-html@2.18.1

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