# CVE-2026-45617: LiquidJS: ReDoS via Quadratic Backtracking in \`strip\_html\` Filter Regex

- Also known as: GHSA-R7G9-XPMJ-5FCQ
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, 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 built-in strip_html filter uses a regex containing four flawed lazy-quantified alternatives, leading to ReDoS via quadratic backtracking. When the input contains many <script, <style, or <!-- opener tokens without matching closers, the V8 regex engine performs O(N²) backtracking, blocking the Node.js event loop. A single ~350 KB request ('<script'.repeat(50000)) stalls the process for ~10 seconds; cost grows quadratically with input size. The default memoryLimit: Infinity does not bound regex CPU, and even when configured strip_html only charges str.length to the limit — the regex itself runs unbounded. A single unauthenticated request containing crafted untrusted input can cause severe event-loop blocking and CPU amplification that saturates Node.js workers while bypassing memoryLimit protections. 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-r7g9-xpmj-5fcq
- https://github.com/harttle/liquidjs/commit/3616a744b9abeb425c217b340a2397d46176afb8
- https://github.com/harttle/liquidjs/releases/tag/v10.26.0

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