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md-editor-v3: XSS via fenced-code language rendering bypass

Published Sep 18, 2026

Description

md-editor-v3 is a Markdown editor for Vue 3 developed in JSX and TypeScript. Prior to 6.5.4, MdPreview's useMarkdownIt() highlight callback in packages/MdEditor/layouts/Content/composition/useMarkdownIt.ts inserts a fenced-code language value into class and language HTML attributes without escaping or consistently quoting it. Both highlighted and non-highlighted rendering paths reach this return value, while XSSPlugin filters only existing html_block and html_inline tokens before rendering and therefore cannot inspect the renderer-generated HTML. An attacker who can supply Markdown can use crafted fenced-code metadata to execute JavaScript in the application origin when a victim renders it, including as stored cross-site scripting when the host persists the Markdown. This issue is fixed in version 6.5.4

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner GitHub_M
Published Sep 18, 2026
Updated Sep 18, 2026
Reserved Sep 2, 2026
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Sep 18, 2026
NVD
Status Received
Modified Sep 18, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
GHSA-3RM2-H79C-8QW6