# CVE-2026-85061: MapLibre GL JS: XSS Sanitizer Bypass in DOM.sanitize() via Live NamedNodeMap Removal Skip

- Also known as: GHSA-JRC7-96C5-Q579
- Severity: CVSS 10.0 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.4.1
- Published: 2026-09-03 · Updated: 2026-09-04

## Affected

- maplibre maplibre-gl-js: fixed in 6.4.1
- maplibre-gl (npm): fixed in 6.4.1

## Description

MapLibre GL JS is an interactive vector tile map library for web browsers. Prior to 6.4.1, DOM.sanitize() in src/util/dom.ts iterates elem.attributes as a live NamedNodeMap while removeAttributes() removes attributes from the same collection, shifting indexes and skipping an adjacent dangerous attribute. An attacker who controls untrusted third-party style attribution strings or user-supplied custom attributions can supply consecutive dangerous attributes, causing an attribute such as onload or ontoggle to survive sanitization and execute when the attribution control inserts the content into innerHTML. A victim must render the affected map content for the script to execute. This issue is fixed in version 6.4.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on maplibre maplibre-gl-js, maplibre-gl, upgrade to a fixed version (6.4.1) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-js/security/advisories/GHSA-jrc7-96c5-q579
- https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-js/pull/8189
- https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-js/commit/1da69f3cd913a39fa948708e01478663bf48bc27
- https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-js/releases/tag/v6.4.1

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