# CVE-2026-54570: AngleSharp: HTML5 Spec Compliance: mXSS via annotation-xml HTML Integration Point Bypass

- Also known as: GHSA-PGWW-W46G-26QG
- Severity: CVSS 6.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.5.0
- Published: 2026-08-18 · Updated: 2026-08-18

## Affected

- AngleSharp: fixed in 1.5.0
- AngleSharp (NuGet): fixed in 1.5.0

## Description

AngleSharp is a .NET library for parsing angle bracket based hyper-texts. Prior to 1.5.0, MathAnnotationXmlElement in AngleSharp/Mathml/Dom/Internal/MathAnnotationXmlElement.cs is not treated as an HTML integration point when its encoding attribute is text/html or application/xhtml+xml, causing Consume in AngleSharp/Html/Parser/HtmlDomBuilder.cs to route tokens through foreign-content parsing instead of HTML parsing. A sanitizer can therefore observe a different DOM from the browser that reparses the serialized output. An attacker can combine this namespace differential with markup-breaking characters in an attribute value so that an element hidden from the sanitizer becomes active script-capable HTML after browser reparse, resulting in mutation cross-site scripting. This issue is fixed in version 1.5.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on AngleSharp, upgrade to a fixed version (1.5.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/AngleSharp/AngleSharp/security/advisories/GHSA-pgww-w46g-26qg
- https://github.com/AngleSharp/AngleSharp/commit/8033a5c690af9c2c443f58e34875343fa4cc1d07
- https://github.com/AngleSharp/AngleSharp/releases/tag/1.5.0

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