# CVE-2026-44897: Mistune Heading ID Attribute Injection XSS

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-2207, GHSA-V87V-83H2-53W7
- 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=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.2.1
- Published: 2026-05-26 · Updated: 2026-06-01

## Affected

- lepture mistune: fixed in 3.2.1
- mistune (PyPI): fixed in 3.2.1

## Description

Mistune is a Python Markdown parser with renderers and plugins. Prior to 3.2.1, HTMLRenderer.heading() builds the opening <hN> tag by string-concatenating the id attribute value directly into the HTML — with no call to escape(), safe_entity(), or any other sanitisation function. A double-quote character " in the id value terminates the attribute, allowing an attacker to inject arbitrary additional attributes (event handlers, src=, href=, etc.) into the heading element. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.2.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on lepture mistune, mistune, upgrade to a fixed version (3.2.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/lepture/mistune/security/advisories/GHSA-v87v-83h2-53w7
- https://github.com/lepture/mistune/releases/tag/v3.2.1

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