# CVE-2026-44644: LiquidJS's strip\_html filter bypass via newline characters in HTML tags enables XSS

- Also known as: GHSA-2QV6-9WX5-CWV4
- 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
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 10.26.0
- Published: 2026-06-17 · Updated: 2026-06-18

## Affected

- harttle liquidjs: fixed in 10.26.0
- liquidjs (npm): fixed in 10.26.0

## Description

LiquidJS is a Shopify/GitHub Pages compatible template engine written in pure JavaScript. Versions 10.25.7 and below are vulnerable to XSS through a flaw in the strip_html filter logic. The strip_html filter is intended to remove HTML tags from a string before rendering, and is widely used as an XSS sanitizer. The implementation uses a regex whose catch-all branch (<.*?>) does not match line terminators, so any HTML tag containing a \n or \r character passes through unmodified. An attacker who can place a newline inside a tag (e.g. <img\nsrc=x\nonerror=alert(1)>) bypasses sanitization entirely, since browsers treat newlines as whitespace within a tag and execute the resulting onerror/onload/etc. handler. Exploitation is possible for applications that both render attacker-controlled strings via {{ x | strip_html }} to defend against HTML injection and do not separately HTML-escape that output (default behavior — outputEscape is unset by default). This issue has been fixed in version 10.26.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on harttle liquidjs, liquidjs, upgrade to a fixed version (10.26.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/harttle/liquidjs/security/advisories/GHSA-2qv6-9wx5-cwv4
- https://github.com/harttle/liquidjs/commit/26ea2856c7a90aec892b98d94a9b7a3e18539045
- https://github.com/harttle/liquidjs/releases/tag/v10.26.0

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