# CVE-2026-59728: @astrojs/rss: XML Injection via Unescaped RSS Feed Fields

- Also known as: GHSA-8J5Q-MFJ2-5Q9Q
- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.0.19
- Published: 2026-07-27 · Updated: 2026-07-28

## Affected

- withastro astro: from 1.0.0, fixed in 4.0.19
- @astrojs/rss (npm): from 1.0.0, fixed in 4.0.19

## Description

Astro is a web framework for content-driven websites. In versions 1.0.0 through 4.0.18, the source.title and enclosure.type item fields in packages/astro-rss/src/index.ts are interpolated directly into XML template strings without XML-character escaping before being parsed by fast-xml-parser. Both fields are validated only as z.string(), placing no restriction on XML special characters. An attacker who controls these values can inject arbitrary XML into the generated RSS feed: a value containing " can break out of an attribute (as with enclosure.type), and a value containing </source> can close an element early and inject additional nodes (as with source.title). This corrupts feed structure, injects false metadata (for example, a fake <link> pointing to a malicious URL), and can cause feed readers to misparse or display attacker-controlled content. In SSR mode (output: 'server'), the poisoned feed is served on every request to all subscribers. This issue has been fixed in version 4.0.19.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on withastro astro, @astrojs/rss, upgrade to a fixed version (4.0.19) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/withastro/astro/security/advisories/GHSA-8j5q-mfj2-5q9q
- https://github.com/withastro/astro/pull/17209
- https://github.com/withastro/astro/commit/fbcfa039dfe3d700b239f595a6c55ee35e45bd06
- https://github.com/withastro/astro/releases/tag/@astrojs/rss@4.0.19

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