# CVE-2026-6827: justhtml before 1.17.0 Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

- Also known as: GHSA-VRX2-77F2-WW34
- Severity: CVSS 5.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.17.0
- Published: 2026-08-23 · Updated: 2026-08-29

## Affected

- EmilStenstrom justhtml: fixed in 1.17.0
- justhtml (PyPI): fixed in 1.17.0

## Description

justhtml before 1.17.0 contains multiple security issues in sanitization, serialization, and programmatic DOM handling. When custom policies preserve foreign namespaces (SVG/MathML), dangerous content such as HTML integration points (SVG <foreignObject>, MathML <annotation-xml encoding="text/html">) and mutation-XSS parser-differential payloads could survive sanitization and become active HTML after reparse; SVG filter="url(...)" and preserved <style> could leave resource-loading CSS (@import, background-image:url()). Programmatic script/style/Comment nodes could serialize into active markup. Additional hardening fixes address sanitize-pipeline cache mutation and DOM parent/child cycles that could cause infinite loops. Most issues affect advanced or custom configurations rather than the default JustHTML(..., sanitize=True) safe path.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on EmilStenstrom justhtml, justhtml, upgrade to a fixed version (1.17.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/EmilStenstrom/justhtml/security/advisories/GHSA-vrx2-77f2-ww34
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/justhtml-before-multiple-cross-site-scripting-vulnerabilities

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