# CVE-2026-44645: LiquidJS has a renderLimit DoS guard bypass via empty \`{% for %}\` body

- Also known as: GHSA-8XX9-69P8-7JP3
- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- 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. In versions 10.25.7 and below, the renderLimit option can be fully bypassed by a {% for %} (or {% tablerow %}) tag whose body is empty. The renderLimit option is documented in docs/source/tutorials/dos.md as the mechanism that "mitigates this by limiting the time consumed by each render() call." The per-iteration time check is reached only when the body contains at least one template node, so a template such as {%- for i in (1..N) -%}{%- endfor -%} iterates the full collection without ever consulting renderLimit. With a configured renderLimit of 50 ms, a single parseAndRenderSync call has been observed to consume 2.26 seconds (~45× over the limit) and scales linearly with N up to memoryLimit, allowing a low-privileged template author to wedge an event-loop thread for an attacker-chosen duration. Deployments that rely on a finite renderLimit for DoS protection (common in multi-tenant template-authoring environments) can still be forced by a single crafted template to monopolize a Node.js event-loop worker for attacker-controlled time, potentially stalling in-flight requests, with availability impact only. This issue has been fixed in version 10.26.0.

## What to do

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## References

- https://github.com/harttle/liquidjs/security/advisories/GHSA-8xx9-69p8-7jp3
- https://github.com/harttle/liquidjs/commit/5b9c3469085e01c79e2d0af28e2a13f730e1793d
- https://github.com/harttle/liquidjs/releases/tag/v10.26.0

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